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...Shelby decided in 1961 to challenge the master with a cannibalized machine of his own devising - a brutish Ford engine* jammed into a bulging A.C. Bristol body - the Monster of Maranello smiled a fine Italian smile. Last year on this concrete and blacktop track, three of the six Shelby Cobras entered broke down; highest Cobra fin ish was a low eleventh. Two months ago at Daytona, the best a Cobra could do was to place fourth...
Fortnight ago, Ferrari came again to Sebring and the master's entourage, with condescending eyes, looked over this year's Shelby Cobra. "This won't be a contest - for sure," one Ferrari expert predicted on the eve of the race. "Shel by can't put all that power to the road. The more power he gives the cars, the worse they handle." When the grueling, twelve-hour ordeal had ended, the Italians were hardly singing Un Bel Di. Ferrari's electric-red cars were in the top three places overall - first this year as they...
...Came the race, and at 50 laps tense Cobra pitmen watched four Ferrari prototypes scream past the yellow trackside pylons, locked in the lead. But behind them on Sebring's blazing 100° track boomed a blue Cobra coupe followed by two open cockpit Cobra roadsters. Not a single Ferrari Gran Turismo went by among the first ten cars...
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...
Through neighborhood drugstores, the association distributed hundreds of thousands of sheets of yellow gummed stickers. Printed in red above the inescapable word "Poison" is a vicious-looking, four-fanged cobra, poised to strike. Most youngsters, the association reasons, are warned against snakes early in life. They should be able to recognize the symbol and heed its warning. The recommendation is that stickers be put not only on dangerous medicines, but on containers for such poisons, among others, as ammonia, antifreeze, bleaches and disinfectants containing chlorine, gasoline, insect and rat poisons, kerosene and lead paints...