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June 19, 1967 Table Of Contents

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Booktalk

In the name of conservation, a famed old mountain landmark vanished overnight

By Robert Cantwell

Yesterday

Red Socks for a Venezuelan Tiger

An inning of ball and an inning of revolution made a snappy game

By Mark Mulvoy

Glorious Double

THE GLORIOUS DOUBLE

Ford made it two straight at Le Mans as A. J. Foyt added another triumph to his Indy victory

By Bob Ottum

AN ICY WELCOME TO THE NHL

The pickings were thin as hockey's expansion draft staffed six new U.S. teams—thinnest of all for Los Angeles' Jack Kent Cooke, who was the object of some expertly brutal hazing by Toronto's Punch Imlach

By Pete Axthelm

Fit To Kill

ALL DRESSED UP AND FIT TO KILL

Bill Toomey arrived at the decathlon championships with a change of clothes for almost every event. He needn't have bothered. Despite sore tendons he easily outdistanced the field to win the title again

By John Underwood

Sweet Joe

'YOU SWEETER THAN WINE, JOE'

That is what the crowd yells when Gypsy Joe Harris steps into the ring. A preposterous figure of a fighter with a bald head and potbelly, he is nevertheless as creative and exciting as Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray ever were, and In Philadelphia's Jungle he is king

By Mark Kram

Sunny Shows

THE SUNNY SOCIABLE SHOWS OF SUMMER

People

PEOPLE

Bridge

One way of filching a hand in The Flitch

London holds a husband-and-wife championship, and the winners, not surprisingly, are newlyweds

By Charles Goren

Tennis

An amateur bad boy turns pro perfectionist

As the top-ranked U.S. tennis player, Dennis Ralston often substituted petulance for performance on the courts. Now, as the newest star of the professional troupe, he shows promise of becoming a real champion

By Kim Chapin

Baseball

New kind of numbers game

Maybe you think you're up to date on all the latest statistics, but what do you say when your Little Leaguer asks you about killers and gamers?

By William Leggett

Dauntless Dave

DAUNTLESS DAVE

He never swung a club until he was 28, and he can't really play a lick today, but this has not kept Houston's irrepressible Dave Williams from becoming the biggest man in college golf

By John Underwood

Baseball's Week

BASEBALL'S WEEK

By Herman Weiskopf

For The Record

A roundup of the sports information of the week

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

Departments

LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER

By Garry Valk

SCORECARD

CREDITS

FACES IN THE CROWD