February 01, 1965 | Volume 22, Issue 5

As wide and stable as a barge, as swift as a 12-meter, as luxurious as an ocean liner, this cruising catamaran is all things to all sailors

Zeke of cabin creek is what his fellow Los Angeles Lakers call pro basketball's Jerry West, who came out of the West Virginia mountains to win acclaim—way out West.

Among its many distinctions, California can lay claim to being the most sports-minded state in the nation. Indeed, scarcely an issue of this magazine does not contain at least one California...

When you can have a perfect lie, why give yourself a mediocre one? This is a question I ask on the frequent occasions when I see golfers, both good ones and bad, hitting a tee shot on a par-3 hole...

Friendly Frankie Sinatra and retinue appeared backstage after a performance to patch up a reported feud with "Golden Boy" Sammy Davis. "He was nice enough to invite me to the Little Club for...

Never has so much international solicitude been lavished upon a single wild bird as that being heaped upon a battered, bedraggled and accident-prone baby whooping crane named Lady Bird. This...

Like any good fight, this one began with an argument. One side insisted that the best way to bid a bridge hand was naturally—that is, calling a spade a spade. The other side favored a more obscure...

That's Miami of Ohio and, without a giant or a star but with lots of savvy, it has become one of the best basketball teams in the country

THE GAINESVILLE PLAN

•Bob Devaney, Nebraska coach, on the effect of TV commercials on football: "During the Rose Bowl game I thought the White Knight scored the last three touchdowns."

BASKETBALL—BOSTON and CINCINNATI each had three victories and one defeat and remained first and second in the East, separated by eight games. Third-place PHILADELPHIA, however, had a week to...

4—Neil Leifer6—Topix12-14—Russ Halford15-17—Jack Sheedy and George Long21—map by William Bernstein26, 40—A. Y. Owen45—UPI, London Daily Express from Pictorial46—Carl Iwasaki52—Tony Tomsic58—Herb...

Susan Urban, 15, of Buffalo, paired with her 20-year-old premed-student brother, Stan, to win the Gold Dance title at the Eastern Figure Skating Championships in Boston, thus qualifying for the...

Misfortune has struck some of the perennial winners this year, to the delight of their long-suffering neighbors. Kentucky's crusty old Adolph Rupp, for one, is wallowing in the ruck of the...

UNCOVER GIRLSirs:I received my January 18 issue of SI today and was shocked at the cover and the article inside (The Nudity Cult). I am a teacher and athletic director at a local high school and...