Word: cobras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many other jellyfish have stings, but those of the Physalia group secrete a nerve poison almost as virulent as the king cobra's venom. The abundant Caribbean form, physalia, is rarely more than eight inches across its mauve, iridescent, jellylike body, but it has scores of tentacles up to 50 ft. or even 100 ft. long. These tentacles are like strings of microscopic beads, containing tiny poison cells consisting of a hollow, coiled thread with a barb...
...long as Kashmir remains an issue between them, India and Pakistan will rage at each other with the furious in tensity of a cobra and a mongoose. Three weeks ago, the United Nations Security Council shelved debate on the thorny problem without recommending any action. The debate had hardly ended when a furious volley of gunfire erupted along the troubled Kashmir cease-fire line, leaving 23 Indian policemen dead and missing...
...Four years ago, when ABC's mass marketing, quality-be-damned techniques were sending tremors through CBS and NBC, Paley met the challenge by buying away what he considered the mainspring of ABC programming-Jim Aubrey, then ABC vice president and known in the trade as "The Smiling Cobra." In his new job, Aubrey has gone all out for ratings, often at the expense of prestige. CBS's supremacy has not been won without some deserved criticism, and NBC can fairly claim to have held out, by contrast, for quality...
...around the country, exhibiting five hot rods made from standard Ford autos and sometimes displaying Ford's biggest teaser: a three-eighths scale model of a drag racer designed by Ford stylists and called the Twister, which Ford may one day produce commercially. Soon, Ford intends to market "Cobra kits" that will enable hot rodders to modify standard Ford engines for high-performance events...
...simply shows a boy and girl pleasantly flirting on the beach -with a shiny Impala hardtop and a Corvette Sting Ray in the background. Ford is receiving a lift among the young from a new hit twist tune that tells about a hot rodder who took his Ford-powered Cobra out to the track to race Chevrolet Sting Rays and Jaguar XK-Es. Sings the rodder...