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A laugher is what the Dodgers are threatening to make out of the race in the NL West. Led by record-setting slugger Ron Cey, Los Angeles lost only three times in April and opened a big lead. Larry Keith tells of a man and a team on a tear.

Two different worlds exist side by side at the Indianapolis Speedway in May. Lane Stewart photographed 1976 winner Johnny Rutherford in the days before the 500, while John Cole reports from a first-time spectator's frame of reference.