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Since animal society is essentially hierarchal, says Hediger, humans who face dangerous creatures in their cages should assume a super-alpha status-in other words, a rank above that of the topmost animal. If he fails to assert such authority, the zookeeper risks finding the animals as impudent, mischievous and eager to take advantage of any sign of weakness as school children with an unsure and inexperienced teacher. And the animals' pranks, Hediger adds dryly, can produce far more painful consequences...
Each time they move, they leave something behind. As they go higher, they begin to lose people: the daughter is shut out, the maid walks out, the wife is unable to make it to the topmost floor...
Crowds of New Yorkers surging past the Whitney Museum's Andrew Wyeth show (TIME, Feb. 24), which has already drawn 170,000 visitors, found themselves in for a delightful surprise when they reached the topmost gallery. There an almost cathedral hush was induced by a full-scale retrospective display of the work of Sculptor Louise Nevelson. Awed spectators moved from darkened room to darkened room, observing Nevelson's monumental spotlighted pillars and walls built of orange crates, dowels, spindles and other bits of wooden bric-a-brac but sprayed either all black, all white or all gold. America...
...cleaning up debris on the second level. "Everybody was hollering, 'Let's get out of here!' I tried to go down a ladder, but it was jammed up with men. So I went through the fire." Hubert Saunders, 59, was painting a door on the topmost level inside the "gun barrel," a concrete and steel-plated tube that sheathes the missile. "I looked down and saw smoke coming up," says Saunders. "I heard a man crying, 'Help me, God help me!' But I couldn't see him. I was in the tube. The missile...
Last week unquestionably marked a turning point in U.S. policy toward the war in Viet Nam. President Johnson, after a week of deliberation with his topmost advisers, finally addressed the nation and the world. But so measured were his words and so balanced his pronouncements in favor of both stopping Communist aggression and seeking peace that it was hard to tell whether the immediate result would be a large U.S. military victory in Viet Nam or the appearance of U.S. negotiators at an armistice conference...