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Agression "certainly seems to be... adaptive," even though "overt aggresiveness is not a trait in all or even a majority of cultures...
Territoriality "is a general trait of hunter-gatherer societies," provided that territoriality is redefined along a scale that ranges from "open hostility" to "no territorial behavior...
...daughter, round a ten-foot table over perfect steaks, he is not prone to giggling fits. What he mainly does-or did in that company-is listen with a blowtorch intensity which makes most other brands of human attention seem dazed or bored. (And Rosalynn his wife shares the trait-an interest almost animal in strength and necessity, though her brand seems to come from her mother, Miss Allie Smith: a quiet, impressive lady with the broad, handsome, watchful face she's given her daughter.) Some watchers that night-all of them non-Southern-found the gaze a little...
Chirac makes decisions impulsively and quickly-a trait that some observers predict will sooner or later lead him into a fatal blunder. Observes National Assembly President Edgar Faure: "Giscard plays bridge. Chirac plays poker." Gaullist leader Yves Guena looks at Chirac's propensity to take political gambles somewhat differently: "Chirac's real genius is his intuition...
...Another trait was suggested by Transportation Secretary William Coleman Jr., 56, who addressed the group on its final evening. He argued that, with leaders