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TABLE OF CONTENTS
June 25, 1979 | Volume 50, Issue 26
HAT OFF!
•Doug Buffone, Chicago Bears linebacker, on Fran Tarkenton's retirement: "I haven't hit him yet, and now I never will."
With the Olympics foremost in mind, U.S. athletes changed gears and sent records tumbling at the AAU championships
In the Arbor Day Open, that's where Hale Irwin put his opponents, most notably short-cutter Lon Hinkle, and where kids took in the show
June 25, 1979 | Geoffrey Nicholson In an epochal flight, a solitary cyclist named Bryan Allen furiously pedaled a 75-pound aircraft the 23 miles from England to France
June 25, 1979 The Marshall Plan is to save victories for Minnesota, and so far this season Relief Pitcher Mike Marshall, Ph.D., has been eminently successful. To Ron Fimrite he is no less intellectual than...
Rafting down the Kennebec and the Penobscot rivers with Wayne Hockmeyer, a former water-bed salesman, is no somnolent experience
It's nifty, says Ed Freidberg, to be one of the new breed of owners who have been flocking to the Meadowlands as if making a bundle in harness racing were mere child's play
Rookie Manager Les Moss forged a winning record in Detroit, but the Tigers fired him in favor of Sparky Anderson
June 25, 1979 | Mike DelNagro NL WEST
June 25, 1979 | Mike DelNagro WILLIE MAYS AIKENS: Batting .413, the Angel first baseman knocked in 14 runs and, on two consecutive days, hit bases-loaded homers—the first grand slams in back-to-back games by an American...
No mistaking them anymore: the U.S. teams are the ones in the white hats
Dutch superstar Johan Cruyff has been a real pick-me-up for the Los Angeles Aztecs at the gate, where attendance has doubled, and afield, where scoring has tripled
Film sequels are invariably undertaken more for reasons of cupidity than art. The plots are forced because the only tale worth telling has already been told. But in the case of our charming friend...
Though he didn't win, Eamonn Coghlan had all his countrymen cheering him on for four minutes at Montreal. Now as he heads for Kilakee—and Moscow—he again carries the fervent hopes of the Irish
There is nothing neutral about computers. Everything they do seems to be either wonderful or frightening. At their best, computers maximize efficiency, improve research, speed communication and...
June 25, 1979 | Donald Gropman The victory of Detroit's Ty Cobb over Cleveland's Shoeless Joe Jackson in the 1911 American League batting race is part of baseball lore. It is often cited as the perfect example of Cobb's...
BOWLING—Rookie MIKE AULBY, 19, defeated Earl Anthony 245-217 in the finals of the $100,000 PBA national championships in Las Vegas to become the youngest bowler ever to win a major title.
June 25, 1979 16, 17—Richard Mackson18—Rich Clarkson19—Peter Read Miller20—Tony Tomsic21—Heinz Kluetmeier22, 23—Steve Nickerson-UPI, James Drake (2)24, 25—Philippe Achache-Gamma-Liaison26—Peter...
June 25, 1979 TIM LEWISCLIFTON PARK, N.Y.Tim, a junior at Shenendehowa High, set national interscholastic records for the one-mile (6:35.2) and 1,600-meter (6:29.8) walks. The converted half-mile runner cut...
June 25, 1979 | Edited by Gay Flood THE SEATTLE WALL—ET AL.Sir:Your June 11 cover photograph of high scorer Gus Williams driving for a layup was superb, as was the shot of "The Seattle Wall" (Jack Sikma, Lonnie Shelton and John...
June 25, 1979 | Craig Mitchell My father and Walter Hagen didn't really look that much alike when you saw them side by side, but there was a certain resemblance. Because they were both beefy and wore their hair slicked down, a...
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