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With only a month to go before Konrad Adenauer steps down as Chancellor, Goodbye, Old Chief, sung to twanging guitars and the lowing of lonesome steer, has become one of West Germany's top jukebox hits. As for the Old Chief, he seemed unusually mellow, even resigned to retirement after 14 years in office. Last week Adenauer, 87, journeyed to Rome in a nostalgic mood to say his goodbyes to President Segni and Pope Paul VI, who presented him with the Vatican's highest decoration, the jeweled chain of the Supreme Order of Christ, which had not been...
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...
...smooth pattern of action is broken, man, horse, steer-or all three -can be crippled or killed. To rodeo men, the poorest form of all is called the "houlihan," when a bulldogger illegally knocks the steer down as he jumps from his horse and the dazed animal somersaults on top of him. In a "dog fall," the steer collapses with its legs tucked under its body, then has to be 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...
...poor. "They say they can tell how bad my cotton crop is by how much I win," he grins. But his career winnings-about $150,000 to date-are not the whole fascination. Bynum has never seen a corrida, but he reckons there is a moment of truth in steer wrestling too: "It's that one instant of balance when you've got that steer turning back and he's just teetering on one foot. I really enjoy...
...Bulldogging remains the popular layman's term, but modern rodeo cowboys prefer to call it steer wrestling; it is one of five standard events of the professional rodeo. Others: calf roping, bull riding, bareback riding, and saddle bronc riding...