Word: caped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Madrid, Movie Director John (The African Queen) Huston strode from a bar to a courtyard next door, with cape and sword braved the rushes of a small bull with blunted horns. When Huston executed a couple of passable pases naturales, café aficionados, astonished at the amateur torero's skill, acclaimed him with "Olé, Juan, olé!" Huston was all for fighting the beast to some sort of finish, but a pressagent rescued the director before he found the pastime goring...
...Cape Town, South Africa...
...solely on the U.S. for the means to develop its immense resources. Since the turn of the century, the U.S. has poured more direct private investments into Latin America ($6 billion plus) than into either Europe, Canada or the combined remainder of the world. Between the Rio Grande and Cape Horn there are 2,000 U.S. enterprises: oil companies, mines, auto factories, power plants, banana plantations...
...adversaries in the church, Perón explained, resembled a bullfighter goading a bull to attack the red cape-that is, the church itself. "We would make a big mistake to behave like a bull," said Perón. "We shall not charge against the cape, but against the bullfighter . . . and we know...
...AFRICAN FRONTIER [written with Daniel Mannix; 308 pp.; Harper; $4) is highly satisfying armchair-adventure stuff. Hunter's heroes are African pioneers. A good example of the breed is Colonel Ewart Grogan, now 80 and living in Kenya, who started in 1898 to walk from the Cape of Good Hope to the Sudan to map out a railroad route dreamed of by Cecil Rhodes. He made it in a year after hardships that make climbing Everest seem like a lark. Driving off a party of cannibals, Grogan captured two of the women and a couple of children, all emaciated...