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...answer may be politics, which is hardly confined to human society. Scottish psychologists Richard Byrne and Andrew Whiten believe chimps are positively "Machiavellian" in their efforts to acquire power within a group. In the Mahale Mountains in Tanzania, for instance, Japanese primatologist Toshisada Nishida observed one male chimp shift his support between two more dominant males who needed his allegiance to maintain power. The bigger males curried favor with this artful manipulator by allowing him access to fertile females. When a ruler began to take him for granted, the canny old chimp would shift allegiance to the pretender, thus ensuring...
...Ross G. Forman '90 Spencer S. Hsu '90 Stephen J. Newman '92 Editorial Editor: Colin F. Boyle '90 Features Editor: Ross G. Forman '90 Sports Editor: Julio R. Varela '90 Photo Editors: William H. Bachman '92 Stephen E. Findley '91 Business Editor: Ray Nomizu '91 Copy Editor: Karen J. Nishida...
...defeated favored Veikko Karvonen of Finland, who finished second, and Sweden's Kari Gosta Leandersson, who placed third. In fourth place was Katsuo Nishida of Japan, and Johnny Kelley of Boston University, in fifth place, was the top American on the 26-mile course...
...past six months Artist Nishida has been painting furiously, getting ready for his show. His works vary in size depending on what his father has handy in the way of stock. One 3 ft. by 5 ft. picture took him a whole day to finish; the little ones he knocks off in a couple of hours...
...except Nishida could describe the subjects of his art, and he declines to do so. His paintings are made up of solid masses of pure color, often applied with big brushes which he wields like two-handed swords. "My heart sinks," confessed his father last week, "to see the boy take a whole tube of color and squeeze it on to canvas. They cost at least 300 yen. But he knows how to get proper effects...