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June 7, 1971 Table Of Contents
Yesterday/Hoover Camp
A Presidential Hideaway Everyone Forgot
When Herbert Hoover established his Rapidan retreat, one of the benefits he foresaw, along with the fishing and the relaxation, was escape from the intrusions of the capital press
Lightning
JOHNNY LIGHTNING DRIVES THROUGH THE WRECKAGE
It was the most calamitous Indy 500 in years—and a heartbreaking one for precocious invaders—but Al Unser in a fleet, fit 'Johnny Lightning Special' steered deftly past crashing, spinning, burning racers to achieve a rare repeat victory. Not all the danger was on the track: the pace car crashed, too
By Robert F. Jones
Some gifted newcomers who didn't fear the Americans gave Great Britain its second Walker Cup in 50 years
Big Lew chose a honeymoon over the pro All-Star Game, so his NBA teammates had much more of a battle on their hands than anticipated, but they skinned by those upstarts from that other league
By Peter Carry
New Orleans
...New Orleans will have a $130 million pleasure dome, or so say top politicians. But the project is threatened by monumental costs and hints of dark deeds
Grand Slam
The odds are probably a million to one against any golfer winning the Grand Slam, the sport's four major championships, but next year the best players—and a bettor—might have an edge
New Breed
Breeders of thoroughbred horses tend to be forced out of California by an escalating tax structure, but a few men with money, nerve and imagination have bucked the tide to create stud farms that are models of efficiency
In The Mood
Organist Jane Jarvis brings both tact and taste to the once-dubious art of between-innings play. But best of all she gets the fans...
People
Baseball
The once celebrated machine was limping along on some very sick cylinders. Still, there was a strange optimism around the club
By Ron Fimrite
Basketball
The Russians, thanks be, are leaving
They came, they toured and they made borscht of most U.S. rivals
Track & Field
Since 1850, when men dismounted to run it on foot, the steeplechase has had a bizarre history. Jeromee Liebenberg follows the tradition
Himalayas
A tale of derring-do and don't, in which the author (aided by the travel firm of Thos. F. Cook & Son) has her ups and downs in the mountains of Nepal
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 Frank Deford
