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During the summer of 1962 the members of the quintet--Gerald O. Grow '64, clarinet; Pamela Campbell '63, flute; Glenn Sproul '65, French horn; Carl Schlaikjer '61, oboe; and David Klauser '63, bassoon--took part in the HRO tour of Mexico...
...unit, made up mostly of Yugoslav soldiers and Cana dian airmen, was far too small to police the vast, empty Yemen frontier, and from the start it was plagued by bad breaks and hostility from local authori ties. The team's first commander. Swedish Major General Carl von Horn, had hardly set up headquarters in the mud-walled capital of San'a when his horse, being led down a dusty street, kicked a Yemeni government official, resulting in the arrest of both groom and horse. U.N. planes are regularly fired on (none has been downed...
...admitted U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, in effect, the U.N.-sanctioned project has been a flop. And for him it has been a rather messy flop, for in the past three weeks he and Von Horn have had an ugly exchange of recriminations. The prestigious but stormy Von Horn, first U.N. chief in the Congo and for five years head of the U.N.'s Palestine peace-keeping force, suddenly resigned in a cable to Thant, charging lack of sufficient logistic support, aircraft and even rations. Thant branded Von Horn's charges "irresponsible and reckless," announced last week that...
Horror of Houlihcms. The bulldogger closes with the steer on his right, leans far over, and leaps. "I try to get the right horn in the bend of my elbow, and I grab the other horn with my left hand," explains Bynum. "That's to turn him left, and when he turns he's on one foot. Then you grab that muzzle and that off-horn and just try to wring his neck 'cause it won't break nohow." If the bulldogger's leverage is firm and his power is steadily exerted, the unstable steer...
...raised and thrown again. The "rubberneck steer" can let its head be twisted 180° or more, so that it is almost impossible to throw. Some steers veer under the steer wrestler's horse; others, tough-necked, will not stop at all until they bang the horn-hanging cowboy against the ring wall...