January 30, 1967 | Volume 26, Issue 5

Canada's Nancy Greene rocked the European ski circuit by winning four big races and getting a fast start toward the new World Cup title. The U.S. girls contented themselves with the cute-kids award

It was more promise than performance at Los Angeles, but young Jim Ryun and a couple of others showed they were ready to roll

For a while the weather tore up the Crosby, but on the last day it was Nicklaus—relatively thin and more determined than ever—who shredded the course and the opposition, too

The Salukis of Southern Illinois are not classified as a "major" team but they have beaten some of the nation's best. Now No. 1 in the NCAA's College Division, they are ready to step into...

There is something about a hockey puck zinging in at 80 mph that brings out the expressiveness in goalies. Consider New York's Eddie Giacomin on the opposite page. His is the face of a man who has...

One little noticed but very busy figure in the Green Bay Packers' dressing room after the Super Bowl was an 11-year-old boy, who was squirming and worming his way about collecting autographs from...

Melvin Calvert, who trains a small stable of racehorses for Mrs. Frances A. Genter, is 4 feet 11 inches of ex-jockey hidden behind a permanent smile. Long ago he acquired the nickname of...

The Super Bowl proved that the NFL is that much better, says the author, who maintains that the AFL did not progress as fast as it could have in seven years while foolishly believing its own rosy...

Photographer Tony Triolo, who is responsible for this week's cover and the goal-mouth hockey pictures on pages 21-24, faces winter assignments with massive élan. First he dons thermal long...

With its extraordinary speed on the ground and its wraithlike ways, the scaled quail makes its cousin, the bobwhite, seem like a hunter's patsy

In a series of articles entitled Zero of the Lions (SI, Sept. 7 & 14, 1964), which he expanded into the best-selling book Paper Lion, the author wrote of his excruciating experiences as an...

Zero contends with three of golf's sternest tests, as he plays the 16th at Cypress Point, the 18th at Pebble Beach and then, in San Francisco, faces Arnie's Army.

BASKETBALL—NBA: Streaking PHILADELPHIA (45-4) upped its latest string to eight with four more victories and, in the process, pushed its streak of wins at home to 36 and its mark against Western...

4—Tony Triolo10, 11—Comet12, 13—Yves Debraine14, 15—Rich Clarkson16, 17—Sheedy & Long18, 19—Bud Kamenish28—Don Charles-The New York Times, AP34—Rod Hanna-Topeka Capital Journal57—Paul...

Barbara Binning of Oklahoma City set three national records in her age group (9-10) at a Little Rock, Ark. swim meet: the 100-yard breaststroke, the 100-yard butterfly and the 80-yard individual...

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1.6 AND ALL THAT

•Don Kennedy, St. Peter's College basketball coach, on Harry Laurie, his star 6'1" rebounder: "He doesn't really get up that high, but he has the tallest fingers in the world."

SCREAMS AND SIGHSSirs:From Bart Starr to Marilyn Tindall in one short week is perhaps the most welcome cover change SI has ever made "New Swim-suits in the New Arizona," Jan. 16). Our eyes were...

There is no noise, not even a growl, and no betting, either, at Japan's perfectly legal dogfights. And the big, well-mannered Tosa dogs bred for the fighting ring seem to like it that way