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ERP br> Flagler Beach, FL /p> p> IN THE ARENA br> Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s No Bull : /p> p>Thanks to Bob Tyrrell for a fine specimen of travel writing -- and, for myself, a tweak of heady nostalgia. Damned if it wasn't almost exactly thirty years ago that I visited, accompanied by as many college co-eds (I'm not making that up), the Plaza de Toros de Sevilla, the Alcazar too. Judging from Bob's vivid prose, the locals are better dressed, their lives much improved; though admission to the bull fights -- this was when Franco was yet presiding -- was to a young Yank who feasted on great Spanish cuisine for a few pesetas not much of an expense at all. The old regime is long since gone, democracy's come, and prosperity. It's wonderful to know, still, that the bull fights remain unchanged. br> -- Kenneth E. Grubbs Jr. br> Director br> National Journalism Center br> Washington, D.C.

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