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...Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Into the cobra-comic coils of this superb comedy team fall mothers and sons, brothers and sisters, lovers and mistresses, P.T.A. chairmen and guest speakers. The subjects may be common, but the hilarity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER,BOOKS: Best Reading | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

...world's land snakes, the Australian tiger snake is rated as about the most deadly. It needs to inject only 2 mg. of venom to kill a man, whereas the notorious hooded cobra must inject about 20 mg., and a big rattlesnake as much as 140 mg. Fortnight ago, Kenneth Earnest, 22, who helps run his family's reptile farm in Buena Park, 20 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, had a run-in with a greenish-grey and black-banded tiger snake. He almost lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Strike of the Tiger | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

...feeding white mice to the snakes, had presented dinner to an African spitting cobra, a green mamba and two Indian cobras. In the fourth cage were two tiger snakes. They had to be separated to prevent a fight to the death over food. With his "hook," a sawed-off golf club with a fork at the end, Ken tried to catch the smaller snake. It slithered away, and for a moment he overlooked its 3-ft. cage mate, coiled by the door on Ken's blind side (he lost the sight of his right eye as a child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Strike of the Tiger | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

...venom), he developed a savage headache within minutes. His parents rushed him to Katella Hospital in nearby Stanton. As the evening wore on, Ken's mouth tightened up. He had difficulty talking, then in swallowing, finally in breathing. Through the night, doctors gave him small doses of cobra antivenin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Strike of the Tiger | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

...Because cobra venom is chemically akin to the tiger snake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Strike of the Tiger | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

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