Word: corrida
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...crowded, sleepless, dance-filled, dust-filled, wine-filled week of the festival of San Fermin at Pamplona is the climax of Spain's bullfighting year. Last week Spain's greatest season of the corrida in a generation came to a great climax. When the toro malo, the bad one with 21 painted on his side, lay dead in the sand, the aficionados had seen about all there was to see at bullfights...
Before the Bull. On the last day (memorable for big, tough bulls), Manolete (real name: Manuel Rodriguez) himself appeared, icily calm in a white & gold costume. To him, rather than any other, is due the 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...
...that twice everybody thought the bull had him. On his first attempt to kill, he missed; normally, this would have forfeited his chance to get a full set of trophies-the bull's ears and tail. On his second try, he killed well. When the president of the corrida gave him only two ears, the crowd waved handkerchiefs until Marin was given the tail, too. His was the only tail awarded from the 24 bulls killed. And then the boys in the red scarves and red sashes swarmed down from their cheap seats in the sun and carried Julian...
...they were afraid that Mexico City's new bull ring might not be as solid as it looked, Government officials insisted on testing the upper deck with tens of thousands of bags of cement before letting 48,699 enthusiastic aficionados swarm in for last week's inaugural corrida. Besides being the world's largest, the ring is the world's fanciest, will have indirect illumination for night fights. Spain's great torero, Manolete, spry again after his recent goring (TIME, Dec. 24), starred at the opening, was paid $25,000 (U.S.) for killing two bulls...
MEXICO Homicidal Hero When a killer is captured in Mexico, corridas (streetcorner ballads) often glamorize him in heroic verse. Last week Mexicans sang a new corrida,. It was about El Gitano ("The Gypsy"), suspected of assassinating the Governor of Sinaloa, bearded, music-loving Rodolfo T. Loaiza...