Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...throughout Western Europe. He has starred in two hit movies, one of them about himself, and earned more money ($10 million) than it cost to build the Spanish Armada. In July, he became the fourth matador in this century to be allowed to spare the life of his bull. In August, he became the first in history to fight 31 corridas in one month. And, barring illness or injury, by this time next month the mop-haired lad who calls himself "El Cordobés" will have killed more bulls and been awarded more of their ears in more fights...
...flocks of worshipers, some of whom have paid $65 a seat to watch him, the 29-year-old El Cordobés is the most exciting bullfighter who ever strode the sands. Brushing his great shock of sandy hair out of his eyes, he dances in front of the bull's horns, pulls its tail, turns his back on it, and usually manages to smear its blood all over himself. If the bull won't charge him, he charges the bull; and to keep things exciting, he will receive the bull standing up, on his knees and even...
...Army Lieut. David Meredith, 26: the National Service Rifle (.30 cal.) championship of the National Rifle and Pistol Matches, scoring 796 points (out of a possible 800) and hitting the center bull's-eye 79 times in 160 shots. Another winner at the month-long matches: WAC Lieut. Margaret Thompson, who outshot 2,000 male competitors with a .30-cal. rifle to win the Navy Cup, firing a perfect score...
Another company was choppered in to join the attack, and the V.C. pulled back and zeroed in their mortars on the ridge line. The first incoming round landed precisely on a marine's head, blowing him to pieces. Pinned down again, Bull called for a napalm strike. It turned the Viet Cong into charcoal sticks, and suddenly enemy firing ceased. A medical-evacuation helicopter landed on top of the ridge and took away the wounded...
Certain Invasion. After pulling up his stocking sales, bull-necked (collar size: 18 plus) Schulte built a shirt factory in Italy, where labor costs are lower, supplied it with nylon material from his German mills. Last year he began sending tens of thousands of men's dress shirts to West German shops at prices ranging from $1.50 to $2, less than half the price that other shirtmakers asked. In the resulting price war, retail shirt prices fell as low as $1 and dozens of smaller competitors went out of business. Schulte has collared a quarter of West Germany...