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...never lived (it was built near the site of his home some years after his death). Tourists overtipped cab drivers, loaded up with mantillas, castanets and other trinkets, and thus sent prices up. The bullfights roused strong emotions in them: they either cheered the bull, marveled at the matador, or fainted at the sight of blood...
Between these highlights occurs a bullfight where the matador is gored to death, an auto race against time in which Reggie zooms, at 250 miles an hour, across the sands of Esperanta with his engine on fire and crashes it into the sea, an inquisition trial which took place several centuries before, a wild gypsy dance, and a circus stunt in which a girl in an evening gown walks on her hands and giggles all at the same time...
...work on guided missiles. For six years, behind closely guarded walls at the Glenn L. Martin plant near Baltimore, scientists and technicians worked to solve the mysteries of an accurate ground-to- ground guided missile which could be used tactically on the battlefield. Last week, in the Martin Matador, the Air Force thought it had its first tentative answer...
Standing on its tractor-drawn launching trailer, the Matador looks like an odd crossbreed of a jet plane and a Buck Rogers fantasy. It is long, sleek, round as a cigar, and fitted with a pair of stubby supersonic triangular wings. In its nose, the missile carries a sand-filled dummy warhead. In its tail, the Matador carries a jet engine for endurance and a huge, underslung rocket motor for take-off power. Inside the Matador, every inch of space is crammed with fuel and the humming electronic navigator that guides it to its target...
Into the Bull's-Eye. How good is the Matador? The Air Force admits that there are bigger & better guided missiles on the drawing boards, huge missiles with longer range and much greater speed. Much more accurate guidance systems are already in the works. But the improved models, says the Air Force, are still years away. At Banana River, enough specimens of the bright red Matador have been hurled into the skies to prove that no jet fighter flying today can catch and destroy it, and that it has enough range to reach any frontline target. The tests have...