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...Secretary of Defense for Research and Development, recalls that it was all but impossible to get the Navy and Air Force to work together on a single 500-mile-range, subsonic, surface-to-surface missile: "As a consequence, we have two such missiles−the Air Force's Matador and the Navy's Regulus." Cost of developing Matador and Regulus, with practically the same range, speed and bang: $200 million apiece...
...dusty arena in southern Spain, "the dark horn of death" seared the body of Spain's greatest matador and plunged the nation into mourning. On the basis of Playhouse 90's second-season opening, The Death of Manolete, it would be hard for most viewers to understand why all the fuss about one bullfighter. As the show's Co-Scriptwriter Barnaby Conrad has often said before, Manolete was a slight man of grace, warmth and gentle humor outside the ring; but as played by Actor Jack (Requiem for a Heavyweight) Palance, he was awkward, humorless and uncommonly...
...tanker and B-52 intercontinental jet bomber. It could cancel all fiscal 1958 orders for such missiles as Northrop's Snark, Bell's Rascal, North American's Navaho, and scrub some orders for Hughes's Falcon and Martin's Matador...
...sculpture. At 75 he is a living legend and he knows it; his dark brown eyes gleam as they sweep the room in a commanding glance. He picks up a black Spanish cape from a pile of clothes, flings it around his shoulders with the lordly grace of a matador, tops it off with a Spanish hat from the pile. " Magnifique , this material," he cries. "It is not only elegant, but it keeps you warm." Next thing the visitor knows, Picasso is romping on the lawn with his pet goat...
...announcement of the arrival of the Matador squadron served a twofold purpose: 1) it provided a welcome boost in morale for Chiang's government (the English-language China News reported itself "greatly cheered" at the news), and 2) it served blunt warning to Chinese Communists on the mainland that the U.S. does not intend to let them build up jet bases on the mainland opposite Formosa without providing an effective counter-defense. Now within range of the Matador are new Red jet bases in the Shanghai-Canton-Hankow triangle and the coastal bases of Foochow, Amoy and Swatow...