
Contents
12 Champions of Winter
Pole Vaulter John Pennel and Figure Skater Peggy Fleming last week proved brilliant masters of their crafts
16 Royal Reversal in the East
The Cincinnati Royals were leading in pro basketball's Eastern Division after a decade of Celtic domination
18 Year of Drought in the West
While Florida had a pair of strong Kentucky Derby contenders, California had mighty little to offer
20 Where the Boys Went
Wherein the reader can determine winners and losers in pro football's player-draft war
22 Happiness is a Hippo Steak
With his aches gone and 50 pounds of weight, too, Billy Casper is thriving and winning on an exotic diet
30 A Knockout of a Champion
Bump into Steve Vehslage and he is likely to pass out. Yet, despite this, he is king of the amateur squash players
36 Turboprop to a Glacier
In France the newest thrill in skiing is to take an airplane to the top of a glacier for the glorious run down
52 Just a Guy at Oxford
A penetrating portrait of Bill Bradley, the former Princeton basketball hero, now a Rhodes scholar
The departments
9 Scorecard
44 People
48 College Basketball
50 Bridge
51 Golf
64 For the Record
67 Basketball's Week
69 19th Hole
Credits on page 64
Cover photographs by Walter Iooss Jr. and Marvin E. Newman
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Next week
24 Hours of daytona, a new event, opens the world championship sports car racing season. It brings to Florida top cars and drivers, and Barbara La Fontaine to cover them.
The brightest star in high school basketball is a crew-cut, medium-sized, handsome young man who could make any college team today. Frank Deford tells us who he is.
A mother and daughter named Jacoby, reports Bob Ottum, are giving the men a real run for their money in the manliest of all co-ed sports: Offshore racing in powerboats.