February 17, 1969 | Volume 30, Issue 7

The longest horse race in history, the 1968 Kentucky Derby, gallops along as the main issue in the scandal continues to be quietly ignored. Elsewhere, a likely 1969 winner pops up and a lady...

A quarter of a century ago that ageless wizard of his trade, Johnny Longden, rode Count Fleet to a Triple Crown, and ever since those enjoyable and easy rides, Longden has stood up at thousands of...

Bowie Kuhn, the new commissioner of baseball, has all the expected qualities of leadership. But it comes as a surprise to discover that he knows baseball and that he and his family love the game

A blistering race, pro basketball's finest in years, is drawing big crowds as surprising New York and Baltimore battle Boston and Philadelphia. A report in pictures and text.

Comes March and most of Iowa is in a frenzy oven the state high school basketball finals—for girls. The young women pack the house in the capital city with their furious play, then depart as...

Architect-engineer-philosopher R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, has been a sailor and an oarsman all his life. Now 73, he finally has got around to redesigning his favorite...

You don't have to be a cowboy to ride ski bobs, the new winter sports craze, but in the Swiss world championships it might have been an asset

Jim Ryun is alive but married, and rival runners see a gleam of hope

For last week's first indoor open in Philadelphia, Marilyn and Ed Fernberger were promoters, cheerleaders, den parents and hosts

That is the kind of forthright advice a New Jersey surgeon gives the timid at his aggression clinic for overprivileged boys

BASKETBALL—NBA: NEW YORK (42-21) won all five of its games during the week to extend its streaks: 21 straight wins at Madison Square Garden, nine wins in a row, 26 wins out of the last 30 games....

12—Bud Kamenish-Courier-Journol & Louisville Times13—UPI14—Santa Anita Park15—Charles Trainor16—Herb Scharfman22, 23—Herb Scharfman28—Bob Jones40-46—Roy DeCarava49—Per Kruse, London Mirror...

Mrs. Sally Rice, a mother of three from Naalehu, Hawaii, set a world all-tackle record for women with a 583½-pound Pacific blue I marlin on 130-pound test off Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. The fish, 3½...

NEW CONCEPT

•Press Maravich, LSU basketball coach, after being told to go to the beach and relax from the pressures of the sport: "So I went to the beach. The pretty blue water rolled in and the palm trees...

SOUTH

PUBLIC DEFENDERSSirs:Three cheers for Victor Yannacone Jr. and the Environmental Defense Fund (All He Wants to Save Is the World, Feb. 3)! Since the governments hem and haw and basically won't,...

When the New York Herald Tribune died a few years ago, Reporter Leo Levine, who specialized in automobile racing, slipped into that great journalistic gray area known as "free-lance writing"—which...

There was never any particular reason why horses should learn to fly; it just seemed like a good idea so many times