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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end Dominguin led Ordoñez for the year in the sport's anatomical trophy ratings, 61 ears to 48. (At Málaga, between them, the two matadors collected ten ears, four tails and three hoofs.) There is only a persistent memory that mars the duels for aficionados; in 1947, it was Dominguin, then 21, who taunted the peerless Manolete out of retirement, forced him to such daring that he was finally killed by a giant Miura bull. Watching the two matadors, still aching from their half-healed wounds, many a Spaniard wonders if Dominguin...
Automakers, too, are anxious to keep up the July pace and are expected to complete the changeover to 1960 model production in three to four weeks, one of the shortest periods on record. With the finish of 1959 car production scheduled for the end of this month. 1960 models will roll out in volume by mid-September, a full month ahead...
...stock market last week took its hardest fall in nearly four years, but picked itself up nimbly by week's end with only a few bruises. On the first day of trading, the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 14.78 points. Not since President Eisenhower's heart attack in September 1955 had a market break been so sharp...
Many stocks, including some electronics, regained much of the lost ground before week's end. Wall Street took the break in stride, cautious but unfrightened. With prospects ahead of an economic spurt once the steel strike ends, most Wall Streeters expect the averages to break through the 700 mark before year's end...
Range v. Money. The exotic-fuel program was a casualty of Defense Secretary McElroy's drive to cut back all "marginal" defense work in an all-out effort to pare down the 1961 budget. It put an end to present hopes for boron-powered planes that would get 40% more energy out of a pound of fuel, thus increase their range (or speed) without adding weight. The Navy has already spent $122 million in the program, the Air Force another $110 million. The first group of 20 B-70s with boron afterburners would have cost $3.5 billion...