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February 5, 1973 Table Of Contents

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10th Man

THE 10th MAN COMETH

The American League's designated hitter rule has sparked a storm of controversy—and instant deepthink over who's going to swing for whom

By William Leggett

The Knicks

OH, THE KNICKS HAVE THE KNACK

All season long New York has been winning the close ones, but the 111-108 and 96-93 heart-stoppers over Boston last weekend were the biggest, the Knicks closing to within half a game of first place

By Peter Carry

Believe It

YOU BETTER BELIEVE IT

So said Joe Frazier, predicting the defeat of George Foreman. But Joe was no visionary on this Jamaican night. His fortunes went down—and down and down—as Foreman showed he was the one you better believe. A journal of the happenings in Kingston follows

By George Plimpton

Photo Finish

THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY?

GO FAST, GET HAPPY

By Anita Verschoth

Big Muddy

WAIST DEEP IN THE BIG MUDDY

...and the damn fools just drive on. It began with poachers from the Everglades testing their swamp buggies, but now the crackers in $4,000 contraptions run amuck as millionaires watch

By Myron Cope

People

PEOPLE

College Basketball

One Fly they can't swat

A Brooklyn boy down in Tennessee is leading all the nation's scorers

By William T. White

THE WEEK

By Pat Putnam

Hockey

The Yanks are coming

Mike Antonovich & Co. lead a U.S. invasion of Canada's hockey fief

By Jim Kaplan

Nature

Oryx from unicorns grow

The two-pronged Arabian oryx was becoming as much a fable as its one-horned cousin until an international rescue team got to work

By Virginia Kraft

Bridge

This handicap put the Aces in the hole

By Charles Goren

These Guys

WHO ARE THESE GUYS?

Their image is as austere as Yankee pinstripes, but as one of UCLA's record setters says, they are actually a gang of freewheelers. An intimate look at the young men behind all those big statistics

By Curry Kirkpatrick

For The Record

A roundup of the week Jan. 23-29

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

Departments

SCORECARD

Edited by Robert W. Creamer

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