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...National Weather Service uses all the ingenuity of science to forecast sun or rain including satellite pictures of storm patterns and complex computer printouts. On the other hand, a three-year-old 1,400-lb. cow named Bramer trusts more to instinct. When she senses that bad weather is coming the next day, she beds down in her straw-lined stall in Huntsville, Texas. When some thing tells her that a sunny day is due on the morrow, she ventures forth to graze, even if the weather at that moment is drizzly...
...been no contest. With the competition set to run until March 28, Bramer last week held a 19-to-8 lead over the computer. "It's just the instinct for protection," McAdams explained...
Although often derided by party compatriots as a mediocrity, Bulganin had a shrewd instinct for survival. In 1953 he joined the Presidium plot to arrest the hated secret police chief Lavrenty Beria, and two years later he backed Nikita Khrushchev's successful attempt to oust Georgi Malenkov as Premier. As a reward, Bulganin was given Malenkov'sjob...
...however, Bulganin's survival instinct failed; he sided with Malenkov and others in the so-called "antiparty" plot to remove Khrushchev as First Secretary of the party. The coup failed, and Khrushchev gradually eased Bulganin from office; he drifted from job to job until retiring...
...mental book on players and recalls data on their habitual skating patterns. In the second or two that all this is going on, Parent begins to adjust his position to cut down the angle attackers have to shoot for open space in the net. Part geometry, part instinct, the tactic of "playing the angles" is Parent's greatest talent on the ice. "When he's doing it right," says Flyer Coach Fred Shero, "Bernie won't have to move his glove or his foot an inch either way to make a save...