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February 10, 1969 Table Of Contents

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Daytona Shocker

SHOCKER AT DAYTONA

Surviving fire, crack-ups and other calamities of the year's first big endurance race, an American Lola-Chevy team won an astonishing victory over the favored Porsches and Fords. Woke up the old folks, too

By Robert F. Jones

MR. COMMISSIONER SPEAKS OUT

Pro golf, having survived its civil war, is still faced with many problems that its new tour commissioner, Joe Dey, must solve. Questioned about some of the more pressing ones last week, Dey offers his views

By Pat Ryan

ANNIE DOESN'T SKI HERE ANYMORE

The World Cup race was going well for little Miss Famose until the day she started down Austria's Kandahar course—and took the tumble that turned the women's competition upside down

By Bob Ottum

The Flop

BEING BACKWARD GETS RESULTS

Dick Fosbury, Olympic gold medalist in the high jump and inventor of the Fosbury Flop, has quit jumping for a while, but the Fosbury Phenomenon—countless kids making great leaps backward—abides

By Roy Blount Jr.

Sibling Rivalry

A SIMPLY DANDY SIBLING RIVALRY

The Ogden boys, Bud and Ralph, rub each other the right way. When they aren't shooting baskets at home in San Jose with brother Fred, they play their game up the road at Santa Clara. It's quite a game

By Joe Jares

New England

GEYSERS AND GONDOLAS REMAKE NEW ENGLAND

Cars Of Yesterday

URUGUAY SAYS OLÉ TO CARS OF YESTERDAY

Old automobiles never die in car-conserving Uruguay—they just get a transplant and go on living. In a land where new cars are rare and aged ones exalted, any part can be re-created

By Bill Forbis

Golf

Gundy's victory was no fluke

Amateur JoAnne Carner may be the world's best woman golfer, as she demonstrated when she beat the pros in the $35,000 Burdine's Invitational

By Pat Ryan

College Basketball

The wolfpack waged psychological warfare

Pfftt! went the winning streak and blam! went the big national rating as New Mexico State ran afoul of the unsympathetic upstate Lobos

By Curry Kirkpatrick

Bridge

Aussie squeeze on the Chinese

By Charles Goren

For The Record

A roundup of the sports information of the week

Basketball's Week

BASKETBALL'S WEEK

By Herman Weiskopf

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