Bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín, Spain's best, last week announced his retirement from the ring. He had come to Mexico last December for an American season of high promise. In his hotel suite, on arrival, he held court in a scene reminiscent of Hemingway; he remarked, while reflecting about the bulls, that "a goring is an unforgivable failure in a good bullfighter." But the high promise was not fulfilled, and a goring was the major reason.
Early in January, in Caracas, a bull drove a horn into Dominguín's upper right thigh, almost severing the big muscle in front of the bone....
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