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June 1, 1981 Table Of Contents

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Footloose

OLYMPIC HERO TONI SAILER TEACHES SKI RACING ATOP A CANADIAN GLACIER

By Anita Verschoth

Indianapolis 500

P.R.-PERFECT AND PLENTY FAST

By Sam Moses

HE GOT GOOD WEIGHT FOR HIS MONEY

It cost Wilfred Benitez $575,000 to move up in class, but he earned a big reward in any case: Maurice Hope's WBC super welterweight title

By Pat Putnam

Jorge Velasquez

SCALING THE HEIGHTS AT LONG LAST

Through 17 years of race-riding and 4,000 wins, Jorge Velasquez has waited for the day he would be a star. Finally he has the right horse, Pleasant Colony, and two legs of the Triple Crown. Now it's on to the Belmont Stakes

By William Nack

Surfcaster

GUZZLERS AND DITTERS

The best U.S. and British surfcasting beaches are jammed, but experts over there beat crowds by casting as far as 600 feet

By Clive Gammon

Marvis Frazier

The Son is Coming Up

Smokin' Joe Frazier's boy, Marvis, burns to make a name for himself in the ring—while his dad fans the flame

By Jack McCallum

TV/Radio

A fine Paige out of history

By Robert W. Creamer

Baseball

The fairest of them all?

Broderick Perkins looks sharp in the mirror and at bat, with a .346 average

By Bruce Newman

THE WEEK (May 18-24)

By Herm Weiskopf

Hockey

The Islanders sew it up

Although it was Minnesota that had series MVP Butch Goring in stitches, 40 of 'em, New York basted the North Stars to win its second straight Stanley Cup

By E.M. Swift

Boating

'Keep the continent on the left'

Despite refinements of that basic rule, the sixth Worrell 1000 was a smasheroo

By Coles Phinizy

The Lewises

Going To Great Lengths

Long jumping is a family affair for Carl Lewis, the world indoor record holder, and sister Carol, who has the U.S. girls' junior mark

By Sarah Pileggi

Yesterday

DURING THE BROTHERHOOD REVOLT THE MOOD IN BASEBALL WASN'T FRATERNAL

By Leonard Koppett

For The Record

A roundup of the week May 18-24

Compiled by N. Brooks Clark

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

Edited by Gay Flood

Departments

LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER

By Philip G. Howlett

SCORECARD

Edited by Jerry Kirshenbaum

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