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January 16, 1978 Table Of Contents

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Booktalk

A DIVERTING INSIDE LOOK AT BOXING AND AT ALI BY THE CHAMP'S DOCTOR

By Jonathan Yardley

As I Saw It

A TEEN-AGER INSPIRED AN 87-YEAR-OLD TENNIS CHAMP TO PLAY ONE MORE GAME

By Janice Kaplan

Three For One

AND IT WAS STILL THREE FOR ONE

Although Jimmy Connors won the Colgate Grand Prix, he failed to settle the vexing question of who's No. 1—he, Borg or Vilas

By Curry Kirkpatrick

COME, WATSON, THE GAME'S AFOOT

The call went out from Tucson for the first tournament of 1978 and last year's hero replied with a quick 63 and a win

By Dan Jenkins

LAND OF THE ICE-COLD EYEBALLS

Skiing in an ice fog so thick that contestants had to blink to keep their eyes from freezing shut, two sisters-in-law and a brain trainer were the big winners at Anchorage's national cross-country championships

By William Oscar Johnson

Super Bowl

THE ORANGE IS DOOMED TO BE CRUSHED

It will be Dallas' Doomsday II defense over Denver's Orange Crush in Super Bowl XII

By Joe Marshall

Brazil

BRAZIL IS REALLY PERKING

By Jule Campbell

THE SNOOK WITH THE FARAWAY LOOK

There's an awful lot of fish in Brazil but, as the author soon realized, the natives are, shall we say, reluctant to disclose their whereabouts

By Clive Gammon

College Basketball

Their hopes were shot to pieces

Favored for a change, Virginia was outgunned by the Tar Heels' hot hands

By Bill Brill

THE WEEK (Jan. 2-8)

By Herman Weiskopf

Sooper Dooper

Soooper Dooperrr

By Frank Deford

For The Record

A roundup of the week Jan. 2-8

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

Edited by Gay Flood

Departments

LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER

By John A. Meyers

SCORECARD

Edited by Robert H. Boyle

CREDITS

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