Word: cobras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addict is really serious about racing, he can enter one of the 9,000 stock-car or 2,000 sports-car races held in the U.S. each year. For $1,000, he can even take a one-week course in competition driving from Racer-Designer (Ford-Cobra) Carroll Shelby. For the really successful racing driver, the rewards are great. Fred Lorenzen has already won $63,675 on the stock-car circuit this year, and A. J. Foyt, who is equally adept in stock cars, sports cars and Indianapolis roadsters, won $250,000 in 1964. Another field is that...
...Brussels, at 17, he began studying typography, etching and book design, before his love of graphics led him to make endless editions of lithographs. Today his Paris studio is paved with lithographic stones. "It's like walking on pop art," he says. He aligned himself briefly with the COBRA group (TIME, Dec. 12), studied engraving in 1952 with Stanley Hayter's famed Paris Atelier 17, and three years later made a film in Tokyo on Japanese calligraphy. Nothing can quench Alechinsky's passion for scrawling, restless lines, and he collects oldfashioned, fat fountain pens to indulge...
...Indian and a cobra, strangle the Indian first," the saying goes in Indo-China. Javanese peasants say, "When you meet a snake and a slit-eye [Chinese], first kill the slit-eye, then the snake." Among Punjabis the proverb is, "If you spy a serpent and a Sindhi, get the Sindhi first...
...Killing Duel. For last week's Continental, Ford turned two prototype GTs over to Carroll Shelby, the brash Texan who designed the Ford-powered Cobra, a solid contender in production-class races last year. Shelby spent 1,000 hours preparing for the race, figuring gear and axle ratios, tuning engines, using computers to help adjust the suspension to the track conditions at Florida's Daytona International Speedway. In the time trials, Mexico's Pedro Rodriguez won the pole position by clocking 113.7 m.p.h. in his V12 Ferrari prototype, and Shelby decided he needed a little strategy...
Alternately swigging champagne and beer, Shelby watched Texas' Lloyd Ruby sweep past the checkered flag in his blue-and-white Ford GT. A Cobra finished second, a Ford GT was third, and another Cobra was fourth. The winning GT's average speed for 1,243 miles was a record-smashing 99.9 m.p.h. At long last Ford had beaten Ferrari, and a U.S. automaker had scored its biggest victory since Jimmy Murphy won the 1921 French Grand Prix in a Duesenberg...