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...designed Messerschmitt's earliest jet fighter during World War II. When Germany resumed aircraft and arms production in 1956, Bölkow lined up $306,000 in capital from a Hamburg banker, shifted his tiny Stuttgart engineering firm into the development of complete weapons systems. First came the Cobra, a tank-killer rocket that was adopted by the German army, was sold to Denmark and Italy, and got Bölkow into antitank and antiaircraft rocket research with France's Nord-Aviation. Bölkow today produces a popular helicopter trainer, two light sports airplanes, a glass-fiber...
...enchanted paint pots. Their color is alive with serpentine swirls, and beneath the agitated surface can be glimpsed figures festooned like confetti-draped masqueraders. Not French, though living in Paris, and not American, for all the superficial resemblances to U.S. abstract expressionism, the artists are known by the acronym COBRA, derived from the first letters of the capital cities of their birth: Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam (see color...
...misery, however, is implied in the colorism of COBRA. Bogged down in the dark morass of existential despair, most postwar European art either has lacked the tenacity of U.S. abstract expressionism or was bowled over by the impact of pop. COBRA'S impish founders meld genial monsters with bright hues to make a joyful vision. Never sallow, slick nor stuffily sober, this art draws from dreams, not nightmares...
When she was a girl, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, 64, younger sister of Jawaharlal Nehru, awoke from a nap outdoors one day to find a cobra looming over her, its great hood spread. Soothsayers promptly foretold a remarkable career for her-and that she has had, as India's Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. (1947-49), the U.S. (1949-52), and first and only woman President of the U.N. General Assembly (1953-54). Now eight times a grandmother, and Governor of Maharashtra state, Mme. Pandit has been chosen by the Congress Party as their candidate in next month...
...Ford racers-first team entry by a major U.S. manufacturer at Le Mans since 1928-managed to finish. California's Dan Gurney and Bob Bondurant saved a scrap of prestige for the U.S., placing fourth overall and winning the grand-touring championship in a Ford-powered A. C. Cobra. But Ferraris finished one-two-three, giving old Enzo Ferrari a record fifth straight Le Mans victory. >Santa Claus: the l½-mile Irish Sweeps Derby by a lazy-loping four lengths, making him the first horse in history to capture both the English and Irish Derbies; in Curragh, Ireland...