Skip to main content

February 1, 1971 Table Of Contents

40999 - TOC Cover Image

Buy the Cover

Browse the Magazine

Booktalk

A handy guide to wild foods celebrates cattails, wild strawberries and knotweed

By Don Anderson

Yesterday

Hockey's Tragic Day

By J. A. Maxtone Graham

In The Running

BACK IN THE RUNNING

After a layoff of nearly two years, world-record holder Jim Ryun competed in his first race last week, an indoor mile in San Francisco, beat a mediocre field and removed a great weight from his shoulders

By Pat Putnam

The Champ

IT'S GONNA BE THE CHAMP AND THE TRAMP

...so says Muhammad Ali, and you shouldn't have trouble guessing which role he assigns himself in the fight with Joe Frazier

By Tex Maule

Football Squeeze

A GRIM RUN TO FISCAL DAYLIGHT

After a decade of high living, college football faces a serious financial squeeze. Costs are still rising, but revenues approach a ceiling. For all but the richest teams austerity measures lie ahead

By Pat Ryan

A NEW ERA FOR AN OLD ISLAND

One For Fun

IT'S OnE FOR FUn in TOMORROW'S SUn

There will be the usual tourist comforts: hotels, golf alongside the sparkling ocean, hidden white-sand beaches. But if all goes as planned the island also will retain its very special flavor—an air that is purely Dominican

By William Johnson

College Basketball

An Irish Carr moves into high gear

And mighty UCLA thought it had been hit by a wild dump truck

By Curry Kirkpatrick

THE WEEK

By Harold Peterson

Track & Field

Wait-listed for the pantheon

Last October, Christos Papanicolaou became the first to vault 18 feet, but it takes more than a world record to become a Greek hero

By Anita Verschoth

Pro Football

Goodby to the Alka-Seltzer and Aspirin Bowl

In the past, teams got up for the Pro Bowl in cocktail lounges, but this year the game was between clubs representing the two old leagues and therefore a matter of pride. In the end, the NFL was the prouder

By Tex Maule

Leisure

Working at a Life of Leisure

The retirement dream dawns as a reality, every day is just for play, and sport is the tie that truly binds in this sunlit haven for the golfer, boater, angler

By Jerry Kirshenbaum

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

LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER

By J. Richard Munro

SCORECARD

Edited by Martin Kane

CREDITS

FACES IN THE CROWD