Word: bullfighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every flight test of an experimental airplane is a blood-chilling drama. It has its hero, the test pilot, to dominate its climax like the matador of a bullfight. It has a troop of villains: the unseen devils of the air that claw at the untried plane, shake it, spin it, hammer it, try to tear it to ribbons. Some tests are extra tense. The maiden flight of the X-3 a few months ago was one of the touchiest in aviation history. The pilot: Bill Bridgeman, a husky, clear-eyed airman who had already flown faster (1,238 m.p.h...
...drama with a Mexican setting, seems to have just about everything in it except Quetzalcoatl and Pancho Villa. Among its ingredients: three love stories involving three sets of dashing caballeros (Ricardo Montalban, Vittorio Gassman, Rick Jason) and beautiful señoritas (Pier Angeli, Yvonne de Carlo, Cyd Charisse), a bullfight, a cockfight, a feud between two villages, bastardy, incurable illness, a fiesta, a beauty contest, a contested will, gypsy witchcraft...
...wondered aloud whether his son would still feel the same when his leg healed and he began to miss the cheers of the crowd. But to his mother in Spain, Luis Miguel sent a cable: "You can be calm now. I have taken part in my last bullfight...
Close for the Kill. As for Jenner. "I have been present at [his] hearings. They are of a character to make any honest American sick to his stomach . . . I have seen only one sight to compare with it-a Spanish bullfight, where half a dozen men stick sharp knives into the bull to enrage him before the matador, or in this case, the committee chairman, closes in for the kill. By observing the Jenner hearings, the technique for persecuting the teaching profession can be forecast. The plan is to expose a few teachers who look suspicious and may even...
Latin American bullfight fans have long claimed that there is a simple and sinister explanation for the strange behavior of Spanish matadors, so daring at home, often so cautious on tours abroad. The explanation: bull handlers in Spain soften up the bulls beforehand by trimming their horns. Last week aficionados on both sides of the Atlantic were embroiled in hot debate-and the Latin Americans had confirmation of their darkest suspicions-after a series of revelations by no less an authority than Antonio Bienvenida, rated among Spain's top ten matadors...