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...your report on Cleopatra's death scene [TIME, June 8]: the Egyptian asp is a cobra, attaining a length of about 5 ft. when grown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 22, 1962 | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

...then the picture sends up a good line, like "I can see the tears forming in your wallet," and "What if a cobra bites you in a place you can't reach? That's when you find out who your real friends are." For auld lang zing, Dorothy Lamour puts in an appearance, boldly slinking around in a sarong and looking half her age. But for the most part, The Road to Hong Kong seems like a whoop-it-up college reunion held by the last two members of the class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cul-de-Sac | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

...Fondness for animals," indeed. Doesn't Jackie realize that a mongoose has as good a chance against a cobra [March 30] as a fox does against a pack of hounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 13, 1962 | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...PAUL B. ECKLAND Ste. Foy, Que. > Both cobra and mongoose survived. Had the snake charmer allowed the fight to go to the finish, Rikki-tikki-tavi, as any Kipling fan knows, would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 13, 1962 | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

...Since when has the horrified reaction of a sensitive, decent person like Jackie Kennedy while watching the final breaking of a cobra's back by a mongoose become "ladylike"? Violent death, in any form, is an awesome and repugnant thing - to normal people. Is the poor kid to be badgered because she is normal ? Have we gone that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 13, 1962 | 4/13/1962 | See Source »

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