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Contents

20 Smiling Jack Wins a Rough One
Scotland let the hay grow high, but Nicklaus hacked through it to win the British Open on an historic course

24 The Horse Race That Hoopla Built
A good race is not a good race if nobody knows about it, so Roosevelt mixes trotters, blondes and artichokes

28 A Working Wage for Amateurs
The six members of the U.S. Davis Cup team are now on a regular salary of $7,000 to $9,000 apiece

30 Riding the East Coast Surfing Boom
Californian Phil Edwards, world's best on a board, tries the Atlantic, where the sport is on a surprising surge

38 Sunday's Heroes in July
Artist Bill Charmatz paints the bruisers of pro football as they sweat to get ready for the long season ahead

44 Part 2: Babes in the Woods
Scared of bears and of being scared, the Outward Bound girls start their solitary vigils in the wilderness

68 A Muddy Day in East Berlin
A downpour threatened Olympischer Tag, but brooms and fires and sportsmanship made everything O.K.

The departments

12 Scorecard
52 People
54 Pro Football
58 Baseball
66 Bridge
77 Baseball's Week
78 For the Record
79 19th Hole

Credits on page 78

Cover photograph by Lynn Pelham

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