January 20, 1969 Table Of Contents

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Booktalk

BOOKTALK

Lessons learned the hard way make easy reading for the armchair sailor

By R.S. Hewlett

Yesterday

When the Flying Housewife Flew the Highest

Despite homesickness, worry over her small children and the grim awareness of her advancing age, Fanny Blankers-Koen managed to take four gold Olympics in medals at the 1948 London

By Dudley Doust

Super Joe

Say It's So, Joe

And say it Joe did, boasting over and over again that his Jets would whip the mighty Colts in the Super Bowl. Then came Sunday—and Joe Namath quit talking and began to throw. Just like he said...

By Tex Maule

OLD CHARLIE JOLTS THE NEW TOUR

Having buried the hatchet—partly in each other—the pros and the PGA start their $6 million road show with a rouser at Los Angeles

By Dan Jenkins

OPEN SEASON ON BOBBY HULL

Hockey's top goal scorer is having his finest year despite a fractured jaw, a brownish glop of a liquid diet—and some of the heaviest punishment dealt a superstar since Maurice Richard

By Gary Ronberg

Big Ten Roughhouse

A ROUGHHOUSE IN THE BIG TEN

At least eight schools in the Midwest's biggest conference are good enough to play with the best in the country. But the sleeper may be the Fighting Illini, who can't get to the NCAA but can cause trouble

By Joe Jares

The Nukes

THE NUKES ARE IN HOT WATER

Utility companies are going full steam ahead on the construction of nuclear plants, but the threat of thermal pollution may force a cooling-off period

By Robert H. Boyle