January 25, 1965 Table Of Contents

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Booktalk

A Sierra Club book presents a case for leaving the Grand Canyon alone

By Robert H. Boyle

Yesterday

Rocky Calls It Skuldujjery

It was the one defeat in a stunning record of victories—and the thought of that disputed fight still makes Marciano mad

By Myron Cope

Magic 50

GO, BOBBY! GO—TO BEAT THE MAGIC 50

In the boldest attack yet on hockey's seemingly impassable barrier, Bobby Hull has sent his lightning-fast slap and wrist shots into the net 36 times to put him and Chicago on the road to a championship

By William Leggett

Big Bluff

ANOTHER BIG BLUFF BY BIG WILT

Traded away for almost no cash and three run-of-the-court players, Chamberlain is again threatening to take his investments and go home. Jerry Lucas, meanwhile, has taken home the All-Star MVP

By Frank Deford

HI JOE, WHERE ARE YOU?

That was the unanswered question all Britain was asking after the nation's outstanding young racing greyhound (below) was snatched from his kennel by unknown thieves in the dark of the night

By John Lovesey

Moving Up

Moving Up in the Downhill

Bug Boy

THE BUG BOY RIDES LIKE AN OLD HAND

Apprentice Jockey Mike Venezia had 192 winners last year—including six firsts and three seconds in one day at Aqueduct—and he'll be riding in the big stakes for Greentree Stable at Hialeah

By Jack Olsen

So says a man who builds the best and wouldn't reach out for fiber glass if he were drowning

By Hugh Whall

Wrestling

The night the Cyclones met a thunderclap

The crowd, as always, was raucous at Lehigh's packed Grace Hall, but Iowa State refused to rattle. Behind after three matches, the Cyclones stormed back to win and prove they are one of the country's best teams

By Herman Weiskopf

Sis-Boom-Bah!

SIS-BOOM-BAH! FOR AMALGAMATED SPONGE

American corporations, imbued with the happy thought that employees who play together stay together, are providing workers with everything from checker contests to country clubs and are making industrial recreation a billion-dollar business

By Bil Gilbert