Osaka

A practice session of Japan's world champion women's volleyball team is thrown open, for the first time, to a non-Oriental newsman—who is chilled by the fanatical striving that he witnesses

October is World Series month, not only in the U.S., but also in Japan, where a nation of baseball addicts has adopted the American game with astonishing zeal. As these scenes of last year's Japanese world series...

Nancie Rideout, 20, shapely Cypress Gardens, Fla. water skier, was in rare form at national championships in Pine Mountain, Ga., winning slalom, tricks event and completing grand slam with world record 89-foot jump.