December 14, 1970 Table Of Contents
TV Talk
ABC wrestles with the hardest form of football coverage and happily survives
By Frank Deford
Body Language
As applied by Texas to Arkansas it spoke louder than words, although Darrell Royal had some of those, too, as the Longhorns won their 30th straight game
By Dan Jenkins
By Mark Kram
Dots And Dash
MESSAGE FROM MINNESOTA: THREE DOTS AND A DASH
That's the front four—three blacks and a white—and last week Chicago was on the receiving end as the Vikings clinched the title
By Pat Putnam
Mountaineer
Why is Mountaineer Mitch Michaud on Ebright Road in Centerville, Del.? Because it's there. Also because it's the highest point (440 feet) in the state, and Michaud yearned to be the first to attain the highest point in all 50 states in one year
By Dan Levin
As his work shows, Arnold Roth is crazy. This makes him the ideal artist to portray the vagaries of pool, a game whose apparent simplicity conceals its frustrations. Here, then, is the oddball behind the eight ball
People
College Basketball
The Utah settings are serene, the arenas big, new and bustling. Alas, the teams have been much too accommodating—but not for long
By Joe Jares
Bridge
Mathe, moxie and stamina turned the trick
Hockey
After waiting 53 years for the opportunity, just being in the big league is a feast for Vancouver. A playoff position is like extra dessert
By Mark Mulvoy
Pro Basketball
Bill Fitch can't decide whether to laugh or cry as he watches...
By Peter Carry
Nature
As one of his last official acts, the former Secretary of the Interior moved to save a threatened whale population. Here, he explains why
Fighting Irish
The Greening of the Fighting Irish
The statue of the Virgin still looks down from the famous Golden Dome, and football still dominates the autumn Saturdays at Notre Dame. But even here there is New Awareness, for the times, they are a-changing in South Bend
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
By J. Richard Munro
Edited by Robert Creamer