BASKETBALL—NBA: Philadelphia and Boston rounded out the week at 3-2 in the best-of-seven Eastern semifinals against New York and Detroit, while, in the West, San Francisco led division champion...

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Tommy Michalek, a 10-year-old center for Little Cesar's hockey team in Detroit, scored 199 goals and had 112 assists for a total of 311 points in 73 games. Tommy, who batted .375 as a Little...

ARMS AND THE PEOPLESirs:It was refreshing to read Martin Kane's article on the firearms issue (Bang! Bang! You're Dead, March 18). Undoubtedly the hue and cry from both sides of the controversy...

A few years ago Robert Nadler, an engineer who loved sailing, set out to buy a second-hand boat. It wasn't easy. "You wind up with sore eyes from reading classified ads and muddy feet from...

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•Cora Alcindor, after her son Lew gave her one of the nets almost bombed off the basket in UCLA's victory in the NCAA championship game: "It was such a great night. I think I'm going to have this...

Every week the cast of leading characters for Churchill Downs changes. The results of last weekend's major preps in California and Florida added a few new candidates, while still others lurk in...

One of the oddly garish trademarks of Florida Derby day at Gulfstream Park, the tasteful, flower-bedecked track outside Miami, is the plethora of ooohs, aaahs and yuks that the management crams...

The Hoosiers threatened often enough in the past, but not until last week did they take an NCAA swimming title. The key to victory was a superb backstroker named Charlie Hickcox

BASEBALL BEGINS. In the annual salute to the new season, William Leggett appraises the chances of all the teams. There will be a review in 12 pages of color photographs of the highlights of 1967's...

As Stanley Cup hockey begins, Los Angeles' brash new Kings, led by money Goalie Terry Sawchuk, have this silly idea that they might win the cup itself. For that matter, so do Boston's angry Bruins

Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus will be, as always, the favorites at Augusta next week, but their grip on the tournament is threatened by a fresh wave of contenders

When the word came around that Picture Editor John Stebbins had turned 60 and was retiring to New Mexico, there was an audible gasp among younger members of our staff. Stebbins may be the...

The men who play in it are aware that no golf championship in the world can match the Masters for elegance and tradition, but rarely are outsiders privileged to see what makes this event unique....

Each year that this thing called the Masters Tournament reemerges as such a scented and luxuriant success, it strengthens the notion that God must have been a two-handicapper from Georgia. At...

Mudcat Grant, the man from Lacoochee, is all smiles now as he moves his act from Minnesota to Los Angeles and prepares for a big year pitching for the Dodgers and hoofing with the Kittens

Miss Marianne Moore, Mrs. John F. Kennedy and Authors Terry Southern, Philip Roth, William Styron and Peter Matthiessen were among those present at the great moment when George Plimpton (below)...

The military draft and big-league expansion may be specters to some, but to a small group of aging fringe players they are a fountain of youth

After a distinguished amateur career, Billie Jean King decided to turn professional, but not before a rare meeting with her longtime rival, Nancy Richey, whose going-away present to her was a...

Raul Rojas, a tough, slugging featherweight, survived a ballooning right eye to lay claim to a flashy belt and a WBA-type world title

In the perpetual feud between opposing schools of bridge bidding, there is something to be said for the wildly liberal "Hatfields" as well as for the hidebound conservative "McCoys." Is it better...

Civilization abruptly stops at Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory. There the bush takes over, and dirt tracks wander through a rough land abounding in beauty for the explorer and game for...

Or how to go around the world in a thousand days on a penny-farthing