November 4, 1968 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
A famed French mountaineer tells of his quiet joy in the face of terror
By Dan Levin
Shopwalk
Valhalla for chess set collectors is a London shop run by Hackett Beeson
By Lavinia Scott-Elliot
Yesterday
How the Class Struggle Reached Left Field
A specter was haunting big-league baseball, the specter of...no one was quite sure what. It sometimes acted like a union, but its solidarity, falling short of forever, lasted for one season
By Leonard Shecter
Doctor's Magic
His reputation preceded pro basketball's Earl Monroe, one of the finest players ever to come out of Philadelphia. After a slow start—he was only Rookie of the Year—Monroe is challenging as king of the backcourt
By Frank Deford
BEARDS ARE COOLED BUT THE BEARS ARE HOT
Berkeley protesters got firm treatment last week, but it was nothing compared to what Cal did to Syracuse
College Football
A new name for the game: Score! Score! Score!
The referee's arms are in the air and defensive coaches are up in arms as sophisticated offenses, quarterbacks who run and the sudden urge to gamble bring touchdowns everywhere
By Dan Jenkins
By Mervin Hyman
People
Motor Sports
Teacher gets a taste of glory on the Coast
No longer content to let prize pupil Denis Hulme lead their blitz of the Canadian-American racing series, New Zealand's Bruce McLaren took charge of the season's biggest event before a swinging California crowd
By Kim Chapin
Hockey
Pappin pops 'em in for the Black Hawks
Ex-Maple Leaf Jimmy Pappin is swinging a hot stick for Chicago
By Gary Ronberg
Pro Football
Big kick out of a strange game
Former ski jumper Jan Stenerud of the Kansas City Chiefs has become the best field-goal kicker in a sport he hardly understands
By Pat Putnam
When Man Plays God
There Are Problems when Man Plays God
The cahow, a bird that the Spaniards mistook for a devil and the English thought was silly, is a living—barely living—monument to man's effect on his environment. A Bermudian naturalist is attempting to save the cahow from its enemies and itself, while wondering if its fate is not the fate of all of us
THE MEDAL WINNERS AT THE OLYMPICS 1968
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
Triple medal winner Debbie Meyer sparked the U.S. swimming team in a lustrous sweep that brushed away the Olympiad's shadows
By Bob Ottum
In the first of two encounters that may well decide the Coastal Division title, the Baltimore Colts whipped the Los Angeles Rams 27-70 to tie them for first place and set up the crucial rematch in December
By Tex Maule