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Contents

20 The Deck Is Shuffled
The Cards, expected to be baseball's easiest winners, were on the bottom looking up at the Cubs and the amazin' Pirates

24 Grand Jean a Mighty Man is He
Montreal's remarkable Jean Beliveau scores a goal in overtime to defeat the Boston Bruins

The Kentucky Derby

28 Whitney Tower chooses among the four hot chestnuts
36 Two college boys con the con men of Louisville

48 The Art of Ali
While the question of Ali-Clay's fighting plans continues moot, his skill is shown in unique photographs

66 Duning in Jazzed-up Jams
Beach pajamas have become the accepted garb for a new sport—pushing hyped-up buggies over wild waves of sand

86 Slave to a Shah
An Afghan of noble birth is taken to obedience school, where certain ignoble events befall the taker

The departments

13 Scorecard
60 People
63 Bridge
66 Sporting Look
70 Table Tennis
78 Track & Field
84 Lacrosse
99 For the Record
100 Baseball's Week
102 19th Hole

Credits on page 99

Cover photograph by Phillip Leonian

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Next week

The derby report by Whitney Tower and a crew of photographers captures all the color of the event and goes behind the scenes to discover the reasons for victory.

The grizzly attacks in Glacier Park in 1967 have been blamed on everything but the real causes. After a lengthy inquiry, Jack Olsen writes the fearful truth in a three-part series.

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