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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first kill, after performing the whole classic repertory of passing the charging beast, he stunned the aficionados with a new pass of his own. He started it daringly, with his back to the bull, the red cloth muleta to his right. Moving the cloth and pivoting, he pulled the animal clear around him, letting the bull's left side scrape his body as the sharp left horn grazed his chin. Clean sword work followed, and the crowd awarded him both the bull's ears and its tail, symbolic of a top performance. For his second fight...
...Patterson, 47, editor and publisher of Long Island's tabloid Newsday (circ. 209,677), the fastest-growing and the most profitable big daily paper started in the U.S. in the last 20 years. A child of the famed Patterson-McCormick publishing dynasty, she is, nevertheless, cut from different cloth than her late, copper-haired, copper-tongued aunt, Cissy Patterson, who, as boss of the Washington Times-Herald, once confessed: "The trouble with me is that I am a vindictive old shanty-Irish bitch...
...Paestum was founded by Greek traders around 600 B.C. and first named Posidonia, in honor of the sea god Poseidon. Across its bustling wharves merchants bought and sold the products of the civilized world: decorated vases from Sicily, bronze and iron weapons from Sardinia, colored glass from North Africa, cloth from Egypt and Greece. The city's middlemen grew wealthy, built a 310-acre city of 100.000 inhabitants, surrounded it with a wall three miles long, and in leisure moments cultivated a famed species of rose which bloomed twice a year...
...without undressing (by wrapping a dry longyi over the wet one and dropping the wet one in the bath), which is convenient since in Burma the poor usually bathe at public wells or faucets; one can also unhitch the longyi in Burma's uncomfortable humidity, spreading the cloth with an easy, billowing motion, letting in a refreshing draft of air without exposure. Longyis, like much else in Burma, may seem strange to Western eyes, but they are peculiarly suited to Burma...
Imagination. To most of his staff Prouvost is a mystery man. He sits in small room with peeling wallpaper at table covered with green baize cloth an gives orders to a small, devoted group of deputies. Matchmen freely admit that they use "American methods" to get stories in a country where most journalist operate with a maximum of tact and minimum of imagination. In Rome, at a elevation of new cardinals, a Match photographer disguised himself as a papal servant, ushered visitors to their seat while he quietly snapped pictures of the ceremony with a camera hidden under his robes...