Word: benitez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mourning, a biography of El Cordobés, by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre, who also wrote Is Paris Burning? (a proposition on which Willie would lay even money at the moment). At night, while Myra was washing her hair, Willie read about how El Cordobes, born Manuel Benitez, now 32, got to be champ-fighting 133 bulls in a single summer, a lot of them bums that even Rocky Marciano would have been ashamed to face. Some were purposely starved to make them weak. Others had sandbags dropped on their backs before the fight. Still others had their horns...
From the passports, the government also took thumbprints and compared them with the prints from Che's military records in Argentina. They matched. Carrying the names of Adolfo Mena and Ramon Benitez Fernandez, the two passports show that Che -if it was he-came to Bolivia briefly in 1963, returned for a few days last October, and came back again last March. The government claims that he went directly to the farm, which had been bought by a Castro front man. Setting up headquarters in some caves on the ranch, the guerrillas laid in large supplies of food...
...news, gasped Madrid's daily Pueblo, "has come like the explosion of a hydrogen bomb, like the alighting of 100,000 fiery angels." Or so it seemed to Spain's aficionados. The man who dropped the bomb, Bullfighter Manuel Benitez, 29, better known as El Cordobés, seemed unshakable in his decision. The night before, he explained, "I fell asleep, but suddenly at 3:20 in the morning I leaped out of bed ready to break the news. Providence told me to do this." So, after seven professional years that earned him some $7,000,000 plus...
...short a time and with as little risk to himself as possible. He did not improve things when he kicked the bull in the snout, and he looked simply grotesque when he charged his second bull with head lowered and butted it in its rump." Yawned Manuel Benitez, better known as El Cordobes: "Even a great bullfighter can get tired...
...Symbol. And a fetish is what El Cordobés is. An orphan named Manuel Benitez who grew up on the streets of Cordoba and broke into bullfighting the hard way-by jumping into the Madrid ring from his seat in the stands-he is every Spaniard's dream of the poor boy who made good. He owns four ranches, a fleet of Mercedes and a six-seat private plane, and is building a seven-story hotel in Cordoba. With his serious young face, battered body and brilliant white smile, he has also become Spain's leading...