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...ever equaled Cesare Borgia's record for quick promotion. Cesare was the bastard son of Vatican Vice-Chancellor Rodrigo Borgia and his mistress Vanozza de Catanei. When he was only six, he was made Canon of Valencia. At 15, he became Bishop of Pamplona; at 16, archbishop of Valencia; at 17, a cardinal. Only the papal throne itself stood ahead of young Cardinal Borgia, but since that was now occupied by his crafty father (who had become Pope Alexander VI), the frustrated youngster started looking around for other worlds to conquer...
Thanks for the bang-up Pamplona bullfight story by Charlie Wertenbaker (TIME, July 21), but . . . unless the wiry "professor" has gained 20 pounds or so-plus a new face-since his Mexican fights last winter, TIME mixed...
...last day at Pamplona, working with his second bull, Manolete surpassed himself. It was a big bull, but the old master had it eating out of his hand. He did everything in his repertory, including four magnificent manaletinas, in which the muleta is held close to one hip, then passed over the bull's head and horns when he charges. He stood there with the muleta almost directly behind him, his body between the muleta and the bull, and it is only a slight exaggeration to say that if the bull had stuck its tongue out it could have...
...Ears & a Tail. Out came the last bull. They had seen this one before. And the crowd went mad in a different way. That morning, during the encierro (a ceremony of running ahead of the bulls through the streets, which survives only in Pamplona) this bull had gored one Casimiro Heredia in the chest. When Heredia lost his head and tried to get up, the bull turned and butchered...
...this is of the utmost importance in Pamplona, where bullfighting started (so the records say) 500 years ago, when two bulls were killed "by one Christian and one Moor...