Word: cobras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gunther considers Inside Asia the best of his Insides; Inside U. S. A. presented the most problems. "The United States," Gunther writes, "lay like a cobra before me, seductive, terrifying and immense." Gunther managed to examine every city with a population greater than 200,000, but some were more receptive than others. Though he was invited in Texas to address a joint session of the legislature, in Tennessee Senator Kenneth McKellar threw him out of his office. Gunther found Americans more eager to be interviewed than other peoples, but he also found them more politically naive. Inside...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...