January 11, 1971 | Volume 34, Issue 2

<i>It began with a convulsion in Dallas as Notre Dame whipped No. 1 Texas, scorched on to Pasadena and Stanford's stunner over No. 2 Ohio State and climaxed in Miami, where No. 3 Nebraska...

With a pair of exceedingly physical wins the Cowboys and Colts rode hard into the Super Bowl, where Dallas' horde of demon defenders will try to stop a well-aged—but hardly mellow—John Unitas

Like a fine old wine, Johnny Unitas travels well. Not only has the 37-year-old Baltimore quarterback endured for 15 years without going flat, but last Sunday he concluded a season-long journey...

All those Boston Celtic haters had fun for a while, but the party is over

<i>Yukio Mishima, who committed seppuku, a grisly and ritual act of suicide, last November, was a literary figure of massive proportions in Japan. His novels, plays and articles were the...

<b>You name the event—table tennis, coin pitching, backward running or a whole decathlon of trivial skills—and Eddie Kantar will take you on. He is probably the</b>

Golf's richest tour gets under way next week in Los Angeles, and Dan Jenkins will be there to give the pros a proper send-off and review the high points of last year.

Question: What do they do in Denmark besides produce X-rated movies?

EAST

When Bob Beamon, world record-holding long jumper, began playing basketball again three months ago, Coach Mike Gordon watched the reaction of his Adelphi University squad: "They had the image...

A pair of good goalies instead of one makes the difference between this season's durable Rangers and the collapsible variety of the recent past

The qualifying school of the PGA's Tournament Players Division serves up heaping portions of conventional wisdom to 60 young men who would gladly settle for nothing but a wallet-size piece of paper

A report from Cocoa, Fla. on the annual Audubon bird count

<i>More than 70 youthful pastimes of the 16th century can he found in this rollicking masterpiece by Pieter Bruegel. An art historian and sometime sportsman now offers us a detailed look at...

BASKETBALL—ABA: Success, American style, is having one of your games televised. The Nets picked up some of this electronic prestige against the Carolina Cougars in Greensboro, but all it meant was...

7—Jane Eliot—TIME11—H. Lane Stewart (3), James Drake12, 13—Sheedy & Long14—H. Lane Stewart, Walter Iooss Jr.17—Walter Iooss Jr., AP18—AP, Sheedy & Long19—Walter Iooss Jr., UPI20—UPI,...

Pete Sorber, soccer coach at Florissant Valley Community College in St. Louis, ran his four-year record to 58-2 with a 13-0 season, including a 2-1 win over Lorain County CC in 11 overtimes for...

<b>BUGGED</b>Sirs:John Fowles' article, <i>Weeds, Bugs, Americans</i> (Dec. 21), is the most thought provoking that I have read concerning conservation. His intensely personal approach...

Was Yukio Mishima, actor, activist, philosopher, poseur and Japan's premier novelist, signaling his intention to commit ceremonial suicide in his last written works? The most careful perusal of...

JUMPERS GROUNDED?

•Don Meredith, former Dallas Cowboy quarterback, on his future as a movie actor: "I could play the pilot in a war film who dropped his first bomb and it was incomplete. Or, more likely, intercepted."