Word: punta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Subscriber Ulf Hauan of Hammerfest, Norway, having read in our Feb. 28 issue that some residents of Punta Arenas, Chile, were probably TIME'S southernmost readers, wondered whether he was the northernmost reader. He is a leading contestant for this arctic title, Hammerfest being Europe's northernmost town...
...wide iron-plate gates. Peacocks strut in the shade of the garden's lemon and eucalyptus trees, and dark-suited waiters move through the great halls inside, passing golden glasses of fine manzanilla sherry from Spain and serving tortillas on the end of a knife blade. La Punta can accommodate 30 guests with all the comforts of a metropolitan hotel...
Coyotes & Pumas. Don Paco and Don Pepe always wear the classic skin-tight suits of Andalusian gentry when they ride out to see their stock, and the jingle of Spanish spurs accompanies them. The animals themselves represent La Punta's greatest tie to Spanish tradition. About 2,000 are pure-bred descendants of the big, black Parladé, of the noble bull blood of famed Vistahermosa farm, and his harem of 50 black Vistahermosa cows that the Madrazos brought from Spain...
...Superior). By association with tamer bulls, the grass-raised fighters are gradually taught to eat muscle-building portions of corn, barley mash, chickpeas and beans. Vaqueros on quick-footed ponies place the food on one hill, water on another several miles away. Shuttling between the two, La Punta bulls develop the sure-footed power that has enabled them at times to throw a picador and his horse five feet up and over the arena's barrier...
Ears & Tails. Of all the animals born at La Punta, about half are males. Only one-fourth turn out to be fighters, and only 5% prove exceptional in their one brief appearance in a ring (where bulls are either killed in fighting, slaughtered for cowardice, or-very rarely-pardoned for1 extreme bravery and sent back to live out their lives as seed bulls). Los diablos negros (the black devils) of La Punta have charged the capes of Belmonte, Manolete, and most of the other great and near-great of recent bullring history. Businesswise, La Punta's long gamble...