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...created to gather information and offer advice on investment decisions. The Corporation balked, taking the safest way out of the dilemma by abstaining on the four resolutions. But the ACSR's renegade votes showed that, far from disappearing, the South Africa issue continues to irritate the Corporation--a thorn in its paw which the has now been institutionalized...
...chill just before dawn, the climbers reached the 1,532-ft. peak of Cadillac Mountain on the Maine coast. Then, as the sun began to rise, Thorn White of Trenton, Me., picked up his bagpipes and played Amazing Grace. Earth Day 1980 was under...
...idea occurred to Kortlandt, 62, in 1976 on a dig in Ethiopia at a prehistoric site. Resting in the shade of a thorny acacia tree, he realized that a short bipedal creature could easily enough break off a branch covered with hooklike thorns, and wave it as a weapon; lions, Kortlandt knew, stay clear of thorns. To test his theory, he journeyed to the Kora National Reserve in Kenya and set large chunks of meat covered with thorn branches near a pride of twelve lions tamed by George Adamson of Born Free fame. The lions approached and batted tentatively...
Next Kortlandt put a sheep in a wire-mesh cage surrounded by thorn branches. This time, several hungry lionesses began pulling at the branches. But when thorns became lodged in their paw pads, they retreated to lick their wounds. That suggested early man could have protected himself on the savanna by building thorn-branch shelters. But could he survive long sieges? To find out, Kortlandt attached branches to a remote-controlled motor on a framework over chunks of meat. When lions approached, the branches spun as they might had they been brandished by man. The lions darted away...
...lions so wary of thorn branches? Kortlandt's theory: they seem like the flailing tails of animals that lions take great care to avoid-porcupines...