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...some of its members worked with Cambridge Republicans on State Senator John Quinlan's recent successful drive to collect signatures on a tough campaign financing initiative petition--the first Harvard-Cambridge Republican joint venture in recent memory. The new Republican state committeeman for the second Middlesex district, Bill Cobham, is a life-long Cambridge resident who hopes to bring other qualified black candidates to judgeships and administrative positions, in line with the state party's traditional emphasis on minority participation. Perhaps most significantly, Glenn Koocher, another life-long Cambridge resident who is vice chairman of the Cambridge Republican committee...
Died. Sir Alan Cobham, 79, pioneer of commercial aviation in the 1920s and '30s, who originated the probe-and-drogue mid-air refueling system still in use today; in Bournemouth, England. Determined to demonstrate the feasibility of long-distance flying, Cobham and his wife in 1927 successfully completed a 23,000-mile flight around Africa in a 1,400-h.p. "flying boat...
...focal point of the Orchestra is the drumming of Billy Cobham. He plays loud, and hard, and joyously. He owns a special kit of clear fiberglass drums: they are louder than any set I've ever heard. Cobham plays full till throughout the set, nearly two hours in some cases. He plays under each soloist, so he must know their intricacies. He can fellow the complexities of tempo, and rhythm changes, as though he were telepathic. I, for one, am sure he is. His showcase was the finale. "The Noonward Race," Every time McLaughlin had an idea, or made...
Churchill ran a broad finger down Britain's army list and halted at the fifth name: General Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer, K.C.B., K.B.E., C.M.G., D.S.O. A message to Cobham, Surrey brought 54-year-old General Templer flying to the banquet room in Ottawa. Three weeks later he was in Malaya, with such military and political powers in his kit bag as no British soldier had had since Cromwell...
Flight Refuelling Ltd. has ten specially trained pilots, four Lancaster bombers converted into tankers, and a set of gadgets which Managing Director Sir Alan Cobham, 53, pioneer refueling fan, believes have eliminated the dangers and difficulties of refueling. Among the most important is a system of electronic beacons with which the planes can find one another, even in soupiest weather...