March 22, 1971 | Volume 34, Issue 12

There was nothing unduly hazardous about the assignment: cover a track meet in San Diego, a placid California community of flowers and sunshine, and file an overnight story. And, so far as could...

Manuel Benítez, otherwise known as El Cordobés, was in New York to promote a show in which he will fight a closed-circuit bull. It was his first visit, and the matador gave the city a big olé. "I...

Downtown Kansas City swells and shifts with the passing of conventions. Last fall it was the Shriners riding motorcycles through the go-go parlors on 12th Street. In February it was the 8,000...

Fishermen go gaga over gadgets. Little things endlessly entertain them: flies, hooks, lines, reels, pliers, creels, knives, all those compartmented clear-plastic boxes full of stuff. Fishermen...

Villanova's tough band of runners, led by Marty Liquori's blistering double in the two mile and mile (above), won the indoor NCAAs

Down in Virginia, anyway, as he leads the scrappy Squires toward a title a year ahead of schedule

Were you ever mystified by the strange design on the reverse side of a checkerboard? Did you wonder why your board was accompanied by 15 checkers of each color when you need only 12 to play the...

BASKETBALL—NBA: Lew Alcindor scored 34 points and Oscar Robertson 28, but New York beat Milwaukee 108-103, its fourth win in five games against the Bucks this season. Dave DeBusschere scored 33...

4—left, H. Lane Stewart12, 13—Eric Schweikardt14, 15—Heinz Kluetmeier, except center, Bruce Roberts-Rapho Guillumette (2)16—Sheedy & Long18—Walter Iooss Jr., New York Times21—Shel...

Stan Greenfield of Rockford (Ill.) College scored 45 points to lead his basketball team to a 91-84 victory over St. Procopius College and become the state's alltime college-division career scoring...

BREAD, GAMES AND THE "TIMES"

•Fred Taylor, Ohio State basketball coach, on players whose rebellious actions have led to a number of coaching resignations: "You could put the brains of three of those guys in a hummingbird and...

NO HOME ON THE RANGESirs:Thank you for Jack Olsen's superb article The Poisoning of the West (March 8 et seq.). It is nearly beyond belief that today, after years of painful lessons supposedly...