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August 12, 1968 | Volume 29, Issue 7
A HOME WITH NO DOME
August 12, 1968 |
Frank Deford
And maybe no team. Montreal's Autostade (left) is to be the temporary quarters for the new baseball team—if the owners come up with $1 million plus and the city fathers promise a domed stadium
THE ONLY YEAR OF THEIR LIVES
August 12, 1968 | Richard Rollins
An Olympic year is more like a whole lifetime in the brief competitive career of a U.S. girl swimmer, when every battle becomes a war. That is what happened last week at the AAU Championships in...
THE LONER LEADS THE CHARGE
August 12, 1968 |
Kim Chapin
Lee Roy Yarbrough is 'real mean out on the track,' hard-nosed and a self-styled ex-delinquent, but he proved in the Dixie 500 that a bog-hole driver from Florida can beat the red-clay boys at...
RUDE WELCOME BACK FOR PAUL
August 12, 1968 |
Tex Maule
After an absence of five years, Paul Brown returned to pro football last week as coach of the new Cincinnati Bengals and in his first exhibition game discovered that it may be a very long season
Next week
August 12, 1968
Curt flood of the St. Louis Cardinals is the best hitter on a team so good that on the rare occasion when a player makes a mistake it is cause for a clubhouse party game.
BLUEFINS IN A CANYON
August 12, 1968 |
Duncan Barnes
In Newfoundland's Conception Bay tuna are caught close by rugged headlands that rise to a height of 800 feet
Soft Skins for Cyclists
August 12, 1968 | Ruth Lieder
The leather garments worn here and on the next pages by test drivers from Harley-Davidson's Milwaukee plant are as far removed from the board-stiff men's leathers of the past as these 1969 bikes...
THE TWO-MAN UNION THAT FAILED
August 12, 1968 |
Ron Mix
Football's most thoughtful tackle, Ron Mix of San Diego, recalls his own bargaining adventure and offers some good tips to his fellow pros
PEOPLE
August 12, 1968
His credentials include canoe trips down raging rivers and a camelback jaunt over the Gobi Desert, and now Canada's swinging Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau has added another paper to his...
What it's like—gulp—to meet the Packers
August 12, 1968 |
Dan Jenkins
It took a long time for the College All-Stars to realize they could even survive on a field with fabled Green Bay, and by the time they discovered that the pro champs were nearly mortal, the ball...
Deauville fell to the aggressive Swedes
August 12, 1968 |
Charles Goren
If the ladies who played for the U.S. in the World Bridge Olympiad women's event in Deauville had been playing in a pair championship, the odds would have been mighty short that one of the three...
Horsemen in a happy state
August 12, 1968 |
Alice Higgins
A horse show in Southern California should look like a Hollywood spectacular, and the nine-day Santa Barbara show, which ended recently, is held in what must be the most gorgeous and colorful...
WIND FROM THE NORTHEAST
August 12, 1968 | Joan Gould
When the late Ring Lardner derisively equated sailboat racing with grass growing as a spectator sport, he may have spoken more truly than he knew. To the connoisseur of such matters, the condition...
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
August 12, 1968 |
Garry Valk
About five years ago the San Diego Chargers' Ron Mix tackled a typewriter for the first time for this magazine and turned out a delightful piece he called I Swore I Would Quit Football (SI, Sept....
BASEBALL'S WEEK
August 12, 1968 | Dick Russell
NATIONAL LEAGUE
HIGHLIGHT
August 12, 1968 | Dick Russell
Haul out the Little Red Book of baseball records, gentlemen, a new entry is in order: "Most unassisted triple plays and grand-slam home-runs by right-handed shortstops who are also traded in the...
A roundup of the sports information of the week
August 12, 1968
BOATING—Two first-place finishes, two seconds and an eighth enabled O. J. YOUNG of the New Orleans Yacht Club to earn the North American Dragon Class Sailing Championship on Galveston Bay...
CREDITS
August 12, 1968
14—Eric Schweikardt17—Arthur Schatz—FORTUNE, Paul Gélinas—TIME, McNally courtesy Montreal Star, Eric Schweikardt22, 23—Eric Schweikardt25—Tony Tomsic26—Tony Tomsic, Herb Scharfman29—Eric...
FACES IN THE CROWD
August 12, 1968
Rebecca Seitlin, a 13-year-old member of the Miami Springs Recreation Swimming Association team, set three association age-group records at a Cypress Gardens meet. She bettered the senior women's...
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
August 12, 1968
GOOD OLD MENSirs:Your fine four-page photo story of the first U.S. Masters Track and Field Championships (A Masterful Meeting of Two-score Men, July 29) was an outstanding recognition of the city...
SCORECARD
August 12, 1968
THROW-AWAY LAWS
THEY SAID IT
August 12, 1968
•Anna Losasso, Hofstra University art student who has been sketching Joe Namath at Jet practices: "Watching him is like watching Rudolph Valentino doing a tango. His body represents the curved...
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