Word: bullfight
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...Colombians, it is a tiny cup of black coffee-and a social institution that ranks with the Englishman's tea, the Argentine's mate and the Norteamericano's cocktails. Over their four or five daily tintos in drab little cafes (many cater exclusively to lawyers, bullfight fans, et al.), Colombians make & break governments, trade plantations and gold mines, brood about mistresses and write poems...
...both received honorary degrees last spring. But because no evaluation had been made to customs officers (although no actual duty is required on art for exhibition), the 600-lb. statue had remained in the Kansas City customs office since last June, padded with 18 seat cushions from a Mexican bullfight ring. Last week a satisfactory price tag was finally attached and the statue released. The price: confidential, in the interests of presidential dignity...
That was the way they felt in the bullfight countries, and that was the way they would go on feeling...
Thanks for the bang-up Pamplona bullfight story by Charlie Wertenbaker (TIME, July 21), but . . . unless the wiry "professor" has gained 20 pounds or so-plus a new face-since his Mexican fights last winter, TIME mixed...
...present revival of the art of the corrida. He gets as much as 150,000 pesetas ($13,700) for a single performance, and his Mexican partner, Carlos Arruza, gets almost as much. This pair has collared so many important fights and so much of the big Mexican bullfight money that they are engaged in a squabble with the Spanish Bullfighters Syndicate, headed by Juanito Belmonte (son of the great Belmonte, who was the master bullfighter in the late '20s). Manolete haughtily says the dispute will be settled "before the bull, not behind the desk." If he stays as good...