July 04, 1966 | Volume 25, Issue 1

ON SPORT

•Norbert Schemansky, Olympic weightlifter and now a candidate for the Michigan legislature: "Me and L.B.J., the two strongest Democrats in the country."

Back in the brilliant form he showed before an injury to a hoof put him out of the Triple Crown races, Buckpasser smashed the world mile record by three-fifths of a second in the Arlington Classic

At 19 Kansas' young supermiler has run out of rivals—except for the clock. Last Sunday he won his second straight national title but failed to approach the world record as he lost his race with time

His head lolled from side to side. His eyes stared vacantly wherever his head took them. For all the lack of expression, he had the look of a desperate man. His slender thighs rose up, his legs...

The hotshot kids who have taken over the headlines in the American League are the key to the most stimulating pennant race in years. Bill Leggett describes these new heroes.

A total of 45 ocean-racing yachts are hanging restlessly on their moorings or groaning at dockside in Bermuda's Hamilton Harbour this week as their crews and skippers make ready to set sail on the...

The first transatlantic yacht race was sailed 100 years ago by professional crews. One owner went along for the ride, the others simply waited ashore to collect a bet of $30,000. Since then, ocean...

Like those of a woman's skirt, the lines of an ocean-racing boat are dictated by fad, fashion and new materials—and nothing sets a style quicker than winning races. Some people laughed back in...

About a year ago the phone rang in our editorial offices and on the other end was a gentleman with the improbable name of Body Johnson. A pleasant-sounding man with a faint western twang, Mr....

The end of any voyage warrants a celebration. The yachtsmen heading for Denmark this week will find some 2,000 small-boat sailors celebrating the 100th birthday of the Royal Danish Yacht Club in a...

The way Oregon Representative Robert Duncan tells about them, his semipro baseball days as a teen-ager in Alaska sound like something out of Robert Service: the daily nine hours in the gold fields...

It has been years since the U.S. has made as good a showing in international competition as it did in the recent World Olympiad Pairs events in Amsterdam. For a time it even seemed that American...

A pair of prospective schoolmarms upset the favorites in the women's intercollegiate and then tested their match-play wiles on each other

Indiana's All-Stars made it a little more interesting in the second game of the series, but Kentucky's teamwork reflected better coaching

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NATIONAL LEAGUE

By the end of last week Third Baseman Ron Santo of the Cubs had hit in 26 consecutive games, but keeping that streak alive had not been easy. One night the business was so good at Ron Santo's...

BOATING—Jim Kilroy's Kialoa II crossed the finish line first in the 635-mile Newport-to-Bermuda race to take the Stone Trophy, but overall honors went to THUNDERBIRD, a Cal-40 sloop owned by T....

4—Dick Hoover22—Rich Clarkson24—Herb Scharfman26—Felipe Chano40, 41—drawings by Don Moss48—New York Times, AP53—Sheedy & Long56, 63—Lee Balterman66—right, Underwood & Underwood69—Brown...

Al Filipelli, a 43-year-old Californian who began playing gin rummy 10 years ago, entered his tenth International Gin Rummy Tournament in Las Vegas and finally won, defeating George DeMers of...

PINS AND NEEDLESSirs:Your story The Big Yankee Turnabout (June 20) is the first good explanation I have seen of why the Yankees failed under Keane and won under Houk.BOB UTTERDenton, Texas

No one has yet made a survey of the number of people who do not go camping each year. They are the gregarious hordes, happy with civilization, who slink off at vacation time to comfortable,...

Philip Crowe's Sporting Journeys in Africa and Asia (Bane Publishers, $7.50) begins at the Hill Club in Ceylon, amid retired British colonels and tea planters, in a setting straight out of...

Toffs, gentlemen and even the poor gathered at the rat pits in London for a grisly exhibition