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...Toledo last week bullfight officials were faced with that old problem and brought forth a new solution. The fourth bull of the corrida had charged out of the toril, thundered after the first cape it saw, and. then plunged headlong into the protective wall with a shock that quivered spectators from sombra to sol. After that, the bull just did not seem interested in anything. Matador Julio Aparicio, although the bull was his responsibility, made no move to dispatch him. When all else failed, the president of the ring sent a quick message to the chief ring attendant. The gate...
...Haskell's unusual talent, The Battle of Gettysburg was his only literary work. Just eleven months after he wrote his story of the most famous charge in U.S. history, Frank Haskell, by then a colonel, was among the 40,000 men whom Ulysses S. Grant flung headlong against the unyielding Confederate lines at Cold Harbor. He was also among the 7,000 who died...
...Congress's headlong antirecession plans [TIME, April 21]: Once again in a winter of our economy the frugal ants are being called upon to support the improvident grasshoppers...
...video boom is far more than Europe-wide. At latest count, the U.S. Information Agency reports a total of 417 TV stations and 15.5 million receivers in operation in the free world overseas (i.e., exclusive of the U.S. and Canada). By year's end, estimates the USIA, headlong expansion will push the figures to 537 stations and 25 million receiving sets. In the Communist bloc, television is burgeoning almost as rapidly. Red countries are now estimated to have 87 stations, are expected to add 28 more during 1958; they have nearly 3,000,000 receivers...
...months Russia's headlong Nikita Khrushchev had seemed incapable of putting a foot wrong. His ways might be crude, his methods clumsy, but his words had an engaging candor. He conceded nothing, but incessant Russian appeals for a summit meeting "to relax tensions" had thrown the West on the propaganda defensive. Unilateral Russian "renunciation" of nuclear tests-after the Russians had just completed a series of tests-enabled Khrushchev to pose as the world's leading advocate of disarmament. But just when everything seemed to be going so well for him, Nikita Khrushchev's foreign policy suddenly...