Next Week

A Cuban delegation of world-class track athletes is coming to the U.S. for the first time. Pat Putnam reports on the meet at UCLA in which Alberto Juantorena, Silvio Leonard and Alejandro Casa�as will meet an array of swift Americans.

Those colorful, flamboyant characters of fact and legend, the oldtime poker players, are being challenged in Las Vegas and elsewhere by a new breed who will relieve you of a grand—or 10—at the turn of a card. Roger Dionne tells their story.