Word: best
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blooded sometime Playboy Luis Miguel Dominguin, 33, and boyish Antonio Ordonez, 27, Dominguin's good friend and brother-in-law, met last week in a mano a mano (duel between two bullfighters instead of the usual three) to determine which is Spain's best. In the Valencia arena, Ordonez swiftly dispatched his three bulls, showed the lethal grace that has. won him 42 ears as trophies from 26 fights this year. Making a comeback after a recent three-year retirement, Dominguin (57 ears in 29 fights this year) dispatched his first two bulls with some trouble...
...remnants that live on in TV variety shows-animal acts, jugglers, monologu-ists-are dogged reminders that vaudeville is as dead as the day before yesterday. The old troupers are legend now, larger than life in sentimental memories. But the best of them never needed such exaggeration. Carnival Buff William (Nightmare Alley) Gresham's biography, Houdini, The Man Who Walked Through Walls (Holt; $4.50), serves its subject well, simply by telling the story straight. "As the archetype of the hero who could not be fettered or confined," writes Biographer Gresham, "he became the idol of a million boys...
...code number. A couple of questions enable the doctor to rule out two, and he has his diagnosis. But there are several ways of treating this disease, none 100% effective and all with some risk. The physician punches more buttons, lets the computer decide mathematically which treatment has the best chance of success with the least risk. Resorting at last to the historically illegible penmanship of his profession, he writes a prescription...
Most young Indians are well aware that science and technical graduates now have the best chances for getting reasonably good jobs with a future. But even though India's handful of polytechnic institutes and the science faculties have expanded facilities to admit five times as many students, there are still too few openings. Under terrific pressure, universities have admitted some 800,000 more students this year than in 1949. But the "student indiscipline" that Nehru keeps inveighing against has grown more widespread...
...raped and murdered, just for pure meanness, the beautiful Indian "squaw missy" wife of the marshal (Kirk Douglas). The job of avenging his squaw's death is made much more complicated by the fact that Widower Douglas, "a poor fool with high-flown ideas," is also the best friend of Widower Quinn...