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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Weapons for Present & Future | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: All-American Success | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Historical Notes: The Infamous Cobra | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Monkey Fizz | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

DISCOVERY '66 (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-noon). A visit to "America's Jungle Wilderness-the Everglades" includes a stop at the Miami ''Serpentarium, where they engage in such ticklish tasks as extracting the venom from a 15-ft. king cobra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 2, 1966 | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

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