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...order. They were SEPECAT's (a British-French joint company) Jaguar, Saab-Scania's Viggen from Sweden, France's Mirage F1/M53 made by Dassault-Brequet, and two U.S. products: General Dynamics' single-engine YF-16 and Northrop's twin-engine YF-17, nicknamed the Cobra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: Technopolitics in the Air | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...often affectless characters Nicholson has played so well on the screen. He looks, when he is not trying, like an all-night coach passenger who is just beginning to realize he has slept through his stop. But his features have great plasticity. His friend Candice Bergen speaks of his "cobra eyes." His energy level can vary with the most careful calibration. His two best roles-as Bobby Dupea, the thwarted concert pianist in Five Easy Pieces (1970) and David Staebler, the self-consumed and self-deceived radio monologist hi The King of Marvin Gardens (1972)-are shaded with anxiety, shaped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Star with the Killer Smile | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

...large summer home and invites the princess to visit him there, hoping to win her affections. His hopes come to naught, however, and he resorts to peering through a hole in the wall to watch her make love to another woman. Years later, he learns of her death by cobra-bite in Thailand...

Author: By Robert W. Keefer, | Title: Mishima's Last Testament | 8/6/1974 | See Source »

...Peter R. Maroko and Dr. Charles B. Carpenter, assistant professors of Medicine and researchers at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, found that Cobra Venom Factor (CVF) increases cell resistance that results in reduced death of coronary tissue when administered to dogs after heart attacks...

Author: By Jenny Netzer, | Title: Doctors Find Drug May Cut Severity Of Cardiac Attacks | 7/23/1974 | See Source »

...Tupamaros of Uruguay, the S.L.A. drew up a set of goals. Among other things, the S.L.A. promised to disappropriate the "capitalist class," disband the prison system, and destroy "all forms of racism, sexism, ageism, capitalism, fascism, individualism, possessiveness and competitiveness." The organization adopted as its emblem a seven-headed cobra, giving each head a symbolic meaning: unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative production, purpose, creativity and faith. But at the heart of the organization was a cold determination to act violently against "enemies of the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Hearst Nightmare | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

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