Word: cobras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high school drop-out before enlisting and had failed at a few endeavors before the army. He had won a bronze star and had seen many of the headline battles fought with the North Vietnamese along the Cambodian border. Describing the helicopter he'd be trained to fly, the Cobra, as a "pile of guns attached to a couple of rotary blades," he said with very honest pride that his helicopter experience had been the only successful part of his life and except for his mother, there was nobody and nothing at home to care about so a long...
...Viet Nam. The AH-1G Huey-Cobra, a waspish two-man whirlybird with a top speed of 219 m.p.h., can pack a 4,000-round-per-minute machine gun, a grenade launcher and 76 air-to-ground 2.75-in. rockets. Faster and deadlier than any other helicopter in use in Viet Nam, the Cobra is also far safer for pilots. For Viet Cong gunners it is a tough target indeed; it has been slimmed down to a svelte 36 in. (v. 100 in. in the old Huey gunships) by seating the pilot and copilot one behind the other instead...
...victory could hardly have been more timely; American Eagle was on the verge of extinction. The bird was hatched less than three years ago in a London taxicab, shared by Texas' Carroll Shelby-best known as the designer of the Ford Cobra-and Gurney, who had dreams of driving a U.S. Formula I car ever since he began racing for Italy's Enzo Ferrari in 1958. Shelby and Gurney pooled their savings, founded a firm called All American Racers Inc., opened a factory in Santa Ana, Calif. Working with Britain's Weslake Development Co., they produced...
...estate (mostly personal effects) among sisters, nephews and a friendly prison guard. Last week, as lawyers in Dallas and Detroit-where his brother Earl lives-waded through the financial morass, it appeared that the strip-joint owner's most valuable possession was the snub-nosed .38 Colt Cobra revolver with which he killed Oswald. Collectors have reportedly offered as much...
...brick courthouse. Bald-pated William Jennings Bryan, munching radishes by the sackful because he was on a diet, starred for the prosecution and sold Florida real estate on the side; Clarence Darrow, in a straw katy and snappy galluses, handled the defense with all the warmth of a cobra...