Word: cobras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Alfred continued the imagery by giving what he termed a "cobra's eye view" of theater outside Harvard. He urged legislation to establish national subsidies for the theater, and added that at present giving an imaginative production in New York was like "playing Russian Roulette with five chambers loaded...
EUROPEAN MAINSTREAMS-Lefebre, 47 East 77th. A look at some of the major trends in European art today. Cobra Painters Corneille, Jorn and Alechinsky turn vivid hues and vivacious imaginations into Dutch gardens and smirking faces. Noel, Dahmen and Castel scratch calligraphy in mixed media to achieve image with script. Frenchmen Messagier and Tal-Coät recall nature's misty moods in abstract landscapes. Belgian Pol Bury puts chance to work in moving sculpture. Julius Bissier's refined watercolors and temperas round out the show. Through July...
...thinness of .007 in. to save ounces of weight. Electric motors run at a temperature that would bake a cake. Such novel techniques-and thousands more that have been used in the XB70A-are interesting but highly experimental. They will call for elaborate and repeated testing before the dangerous cobra can attempt its first high-speed flight, scheduled for this summer...
CORNEILLE - Lefebre, 47 East 77th. The shows by Corneille and Appel (see below) are close together and similar in interest. Both are Dutch painters, founders of Cobra, whose styles spring from the explosive spontaneity of that postwar persuasion. Corneille is a little tamer, perhaps because he chooses nature as his forte. His shapes sprawl in the lazy rhythms of an octopus treading water in a bright-colored sea of protoplasmic forms. Through April...