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December 9, 1974 Table Of Contents

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Booktalk

FLOCKS OF GLOSSY GIFTS FOR XMAS, BUT THEIR PRICE IS FOR THE BIRDS

By Jonathan Yardley

Yesterday

THE HOUNDS WERE RARELY TOP DOGS IN THE BRIEF HISTORY OF PAPER CHASING

By George A. Gipe

Shopwalk

A GIFT FOR A CHILD WITH EVERYTHING: ROSEBUD FOR A BUDDING CITIZEN KANE

By Mark Kram

Bucks

RETURN OF OLD GOGGLE-EYES

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was back with a sound hand and a new look, and the Bucks were clearly relieved. But the big man answers only the largest of their problems

By Pat Putnam

SIGHS OF RELIEF IN BOSTON, TOO

By Jane Gross

THE COWBOYS CALL ON THE MAD BOMBER

On the brink of elimination from the playoffs, Dallas turned to its rookie quarterback, a dead shot with his six-guns, too

By Edwin Shrake

Earthquake

THAT CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE

It was caused by USC, it lasted almost 17 minutes and its victim was Notre Dame. When it was over, Anthony Davis and his teammates were on solid ground while the Irish lay buried under a mountain of points

By Joe Jares

TV/Radio

FEAST OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL

By William Leggett

College Basketball

Mashed in a mismatch

Against Indiana, Tennessee Tech's Inman expresses how it feels to be

By Barry McDermott

THE WEEK

By Herman Weiskopf

College Football

Battle for braggin' rights

Losing the Alabama-Auburn game is bad enough, but the excruciating part is that you have to endure all those insults for a whole year

By Ray Kennedy

Fishing

Hatching up a new fishery

Don Brown wanted his dinners to be legal, so he started a campaign to propagate the sea-run trout

By Dan Levin

Boxing

Onward but downward

Five times a champion and still formidable at 36, Emile Griffith slips a rung against a young foe

By Tex Maule

Baseball

Dubious triumph in Florida

Nicaraguans believe they were thrown a changeup in St. Petersburg by the U.S. organizers and thereby deprived of the world amateur title

By Pat Jordan

For The Record

A roundup of the week Nov. 25-Dec. 1

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

Departments

LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER

By John A. Meyers

SCORECARD

Edited by Andrew Crichton

CREDITS

FACES IN THE CROWD