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August 10, 1964 Table Of Contents

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Let's Go, Phillies!

LET'S GO, PHILLIES!

The city of Philadelphia, butt of jokes for decades because of its somnolent atmosphere and bad baseball teams, is wide-awake and yelling its head off for the league-leading Phillies, whose name seems to be on every street corner in the city

By Jack Olsen

WHO'S AFRAID OF AN OLD TROLL?

Not 18-year-old Don Schollander, who soundly defeated Australia's famed veteran Murray Rose and set two world records last week as America's precocious swimmers warmed up for Tokyo

By Coles Phinizy

Penn-Texas

BEEF, BONES AND HERSHEY BARS

Which is tougher: Pennsylvania football or Texas football? No one knew for sure until last week when Penn high school all-stars bonked Texas 12-6 in an extraordinary bone bruiser in Hershey, Pa.

By Robert H. Boyle

Houston's Big New Bubble

A Month of Bull's-eyes and Maggie's Drawers

Chi Chi

LITTLE CHI CHI'S OTHER SIDE

Chi Chi Rodriguez is two persons—the brash song-and-dance man who delights galleries (and annoys fellow pros) with his japes off the tee and his jigs on the green, and the quiet son of poverty who broods over good and bad, is hypersensitive to criticism and, out of the spotlight, is something of a loner

By Dan Jenkins

Matadors

ARTISTRY IN A BULLRING IS NOT ENOUGH

Technically the most accomplished of matadors, graceful Paco Camino faces a new kind of rival: inelegant but brave El Cordobés, who lacks art but is making history

By Paul Evan Ress

People

PEOPLE

Horse Racing

Old Hat struts some new stuff

A long-shot mare won prestige and wine for a small horseman

By Whitney Tower

Bridge

Big hand for Big Lew

By Charles Goren

Prince Karim

PRINCE KARIM AGA KHAN

A rare portrait of an intent young ruler who rejects the temptations of an idle life in order to carry on his dynasty's sporting tradition. He runs a huge racing stable, is building a vast Mediterranean resort and skis with Olympic skill

By Paul Evan Ress

Baseball's Week

BASEBALL'S WEEK

By Peter Carry

For The Record

A roundup of the sports information of the week

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FACES IN THE CROWD

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

Departments

LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER

By Sidney L. James

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