Contents

26 Three for the Triple Crown
A superb team of owner, trainer and rider won the Preakness with Northern Dancer and aims for the Belmont

30 An Easy Row on the Road to Japan
A crew as well oiled and precisely machined as a Rolls-Royce starts its trip to Tokyo on a Massachusetts lake

32 Fast Fords and a Great Scot
Top qualifiers for Indianapolis, Ford-engined cars become the favorites. A Scotsman drove fastest of all

36 A Place That Rocky Knows
Guide Rocky Weinstein knows well the labyrinthine ways of Florida's Ten Thousand Islands, home of the snook

52 Being Second Gets a Man Down
In Part III of his journal, Jack Nicklaus becomes an oyster-eating Irishman and an annoyed runner-up

66 The Dodgers' Troubled Giant
Erratic slugger Frank Howard must come through if the Dodgers hope to win another pennant

88 Goo, Golf and Games
A famous British writer tours Europe's spas and finds there is more to their cures than mud and water

The departments

14 Scorecard
74 People
76 Golf
78 Bridge
84 Track & Field
109 Baseball's Week
110 For the Record
111 19th Hole

Acknowledgments on page 110

Cover photograph by Neil Leifer

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