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December 20, 1965 | Mervin Hyman
THE SOUTH

December 20, 1965
BASKETBALL—NBA: LOS ANGELES (18-14), the Western Division leader by 3½ games, played six games, winning three, losing three. BALTIMORE (14-17), with victories over the 76ers and the Warriors and a...

December 20, 1965
28—London Mirror-Gilloon29—London Daily Express-Pictorial30,32—James Drake71—Sheedy & Long78—Bob Doty-Dayton Journal Herald79—UPI80—Bud Kamenish81—Mike Alexander, Fred Kaplan82—Fred...

December 20, 1965
Susie Resseguie, a North Carolina State sophomore, set two meet records in her first collegiate competition—the Women's Intercollegiate Swimming Meet in Kent, Ohio—with a 56.8 in the 100-yard...

December 20, 1965
EX-PALESTRASirs:St. Joseph's No. 1 (Scouting Reports, Dec. 6)?

December 20, 1965
SPORTSMEN

December 20, 1965
•Frank McGuire, South Carolina basketball coach, on recruiting talent from the New York metropolitan area: "We have a new delicatessen on the campus, which is nice. Now we need an Italian...

December 20, 1965 | Tex Maule
On a foggy day in Maryland, perfect for fearsome deeds, Green Bay's spectral Packers suddenly re-materialized in the solid form of 1961-62 and stripped the NFL Western Division lead from the...

December 20, 1965 | Edwin Shrake
With their helmets tucked under their arms and their uniforms smelling clean from the laundry, the San Diego Chargers and the Buffalo Bills were standing under the south goalposts at Balboa...

December 20, 1965 | John Lovesey
A onetime London clerk masks his men but not his intentions as he forthrightly sets out to find and develop a team of golf professionals good enough to win the cherished Ryder Cup back from America

December 20, 1965
As pro football peaks in the championship games, Edwin Shrake reports the San Diego-Buffalo contest in the AFL, Tex Maule tells which team should win in the NFL.

December 20, 1965 | Frank Deford
UCLA crossed the country to discover in back-to-back games that Duke no longer fears the famous press, can handle it easily and will be a powerful contender for the Bruins' national championship

December 20, 1965
The year was rich in excellence. Princeton's Bill Bradley astonished the nation by leading his Ivy League team to the semifinals of the NCAA basketball tournament. Gary Player won the U.S. Open to...

December 20, 1965
At 30, Sandy Koufax lives alone in a modest two-bedroom bungalow in Studio City, just over the hill from Hollywood and Beverly Hills. As much as possible, he tries to keep it private. The house is...

December 20, 1965 | Garry Valk
In the article beginning on page 94 John Steinbeck has written one short sentence that pretty well sums things up for us in this end-of-the-year summing-up time. "Sports," he says, "get into...

December 20, 1965 | Virginia Kraft
A Western sportswoman is invited on a royal shoot in the kingdom of Nepal. There, amid the high Himalayas, the Valley of Kathmandu and a forbidding jungle, she finds a wonderland whose enchantment...

December 20, 1965 | Robert Cantwell
Begun as a parody of other fishing periodicals, 'The Wretched Mess News' combines wacky advice to the angler with attacks against conservation injustices

December 20, 1965
A quarter of a century ago 25 seniors played their last college football games. In the years since, their careers have varied widely, but each has been stamped by quality as well as success. For...

December 20, 1965 | Alfred Wright
Gay Brewer and Butch Baird rode a hot streak to a PGA championship

December 20, 1965 | Charles Goren
'Don't bid unless you've got the cards' was for years a sound axiom for run-of-the-neighborhood bridge. Now this is changing. Even the most timid souls are wading in with harassing competitive...

December 20, 1965 | John Steinbeck
Long before he became one of America's foremost authors, John Steinbeck worked for a fish and game commission. The job, perhaps, trained him to see with a naturalist's eye, for his novels have...