May 30, 1977 Table Of Contents
Booktalk
THE ART OF RETURNING BACKHANDED COMPLIMENTS AND OTHER TENNIS TIPS
By John Papanek
Shopwalk
WHEN LOOKING AT GIFT HORSES, KEEP THE EXPENSE OF UPKEEP UPPERMOST
Pirates
That's what teams in the tight National League East race are finding out about the new, faster and feistier Pirates
NOW THERE'S JUST ONE MORE DANCE TO GO
Seattle Slew waltzed off with the Preakness and only needs to lead his rivals a merry chase in the Belmont to become the first undefeated Triple Crown winner
SUDDENLY MARIO IS THE MAGICIAN AGAIN
In the past seven weeks Mario Andretti not only became the first man to break 200 at Indy, but he also won two Formula I races
By Sam Moses
Kind Invitation
ACCEPTING WITH PLEASURE HIS KIND INVITATION
Never mind that the host with the most had his eye on the jackpot, there were few regrets when Nicklaus asked his fellow pros over for a game on his superb village green
By Dan Jenkins
Get it exactly right and there is a moment when everything around you is water, as though you had just jumped into life's great spin-dry cycle. And for surfers like the one at right and on the next pages, the tube can be a dream come true
By Sam Moses
Blue Skies
NOTHING BUT BLUE SKIES DOES WOOSNAM SEE
The commissioner of the North American Soccer League is a Welshman with the tongue of a spellbinder, Micawber's optimism and a bulldog's persistence
By Clive Gammon
Movies
ALI'S FLICK NO CLICK—FEW FACTS, MUCH CLACK
By Frank Deford
Baseball
Under its archpromoter Ron Fraser, Miami has stormed the college game
By Larry Keith
Tennis
Dan Magill does not claim he runs the University of Georgia without assistance. Others suggest this, and may be forgiven for the well-intentioned exaggeration
By Kent Hannon
Rowing
After Harvard avenged its lone defeat, trouncing Penn in the East, the Pac-8 inaugurated a regatta in which burly Washington clobbered Oregon State
By Dan Levin
Cards
An amateur is burned at high stakes
Cadillac Jack Grimm regularly pursues lost causes. His latest was trying to beat the pros at the Poker World Series
By Edwin Shrake
The Mouth
Often unthinking when he speaks, world-record holder Dwight Stones is transformed into a logic machine whenever he attacks the high-jump bar
By Frank Deford
For The Record
A roundup of the week May 16-22
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By John A. Meyers
Edited by Ron Reid