August 03, 1970 | Volume 33, Issue 5

Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew always hit for power, and won the MVP that way last year. Now 34, bald and leg-heavy, he is suddenly a .300 hitter, too, and the main reason that the Twins are on top

Palmer's and Nicklaus' opponents in the National Four-Ball came away convinced the aging kings had help from on high

Well, sure, everybody knows how to pillow-fight, right? In fact, this may be the first sport that kids really get the swing of—and the happy whappers on these pages are proof that nobody ever...

<b>So says the Viking quarterback in explanation of the Super Bowl defeat. Instead of whooping it up like so many swashbuckling Odins, the Vikings suddenly got very serious and played like...

For horse lovers who respond to verdure and beauty as well as racing, Saratoga remains an episode of quiet charm in a hectic season and one of the handsomest tracks in the world. Its ambience...

Man in the middle is Tommy Bell, an NFL referee on weekends, a Kentucky lawyer weekdays. Whistling while he works, he even calls the time-outs for TV commercials.

<b>The bracelets turn your wrist green and some medical people purple, but a host of well-known athletic figures, including Trainer Johnny Longden (above), feel that they can't hurt and may...

Back in 1952, shortly after Gilbert Cant, a former war correspondent and national-affairs writer, took over as TIME magazine's medicine editor, many sufferers from arthritis believed the best way...

"The only phobia I have that I know about is heights," says Paul Newman—which is an unfortunate phobia to have, as he is now in Oregon shooting a movie about lumberjacks from Ken Kesey's novel...

The Yankee Clipper, the Manassa Mauler, the Wheaton Iceman, Broadway Joe....

NL EAST

Kansas City Coach Hank Stram warms up while he waits for his regulars to report for the College All-Star game. The Chiefs were the only team given the O.K. to gather as the owners and players went...

First came the flying pie plate and then the world championship

<i>The 'lovely little guy' of San Diego, John Alessio—patron of the arts, friend of the poor and boss of that gaudery of gambling, Caliente—catches a tax rap that inspires some Californians to...

NO DOME

•Whitey Gerken, race driver credited with saving the life of Driver Jack Bowsher by stopping his own car during a race at the Indianapolis Fairgrounds to pull the unconscious Bowsher from his...

BOXING—ADOLPH PRUITT of Los Angeles, the WBA's second-ranked junior welterweight, walloped Japanese welterweight champion Sorimachi Ryu with a left hook, dropping him for the third time in 1:58 of...

4—Ben Martin-TIME14, 15—Walter Iooss Jr.17—John D. Hanlon18, 19—Fred Kaplan-Black Star20, 21—UPI23—James Drake24, 25—Heinz Kluetmeier37—Sheedy & Long38—Judith Gefter, Don Carl Steffen, Vic...

Kris LaPoint, a senior at California's Castro Valley High, shortened the towline to 40 feet and hit 36 mph for a slalom run past three buoys to win the California World Cup Invitational Water Ski...

PROPER MEASURESSirs:I have just finished reading the article Funny Ball, Funny Bounces (July 20) and can't help making some remarks about it. First of all, I think that those concerned (SI...

<i>That is the advice the U.S. track team got in Leningrad. The Yanks hated the rooms, hated the food—and most of all hated losing to the Russians for the second time</i>

If you're a car nut of a conservative sort I but with a liquid bank account, if you like Rolls-Royces but feel they're a bit stuffy, if you like the looks of a 1928 Mercedes or a 1930 Duesenberg...

The 1920s were years of hero worship, and among the shiniest of the heroes were the decade's sport figures. Two of the brightest—because they were so peaceful in private and so brutal at work—were...