June 05, 1972 | Volume 36, Issue 23

BASKETBALL—The NBA, which trailed by 19 points in the second quarter, edged the ABA 106-104 in the NBA-ABA All-Star Game at Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, N.Y. (page 78).

22—Heinz Kluetmeier24—Neil Leifer25—James Drake28—Sheedy & Long37—Rich Clarkson52-54—Sheedy & Long62—Allen Green, AP69—Jerry Cabluck72—John Olsen (2), Fred Kaplan-Black Star78—Lane...

Richard Siconolfi, a senior at Bethany (W. Va.) College, won the Presidents' Athletic Conference one-meter diving championship for a record fourth straight year. He also was all-conference left...

Sirs:Your article on Willie Mays and the New York Mets ( May 22) was as beautiful as Willie's game-winning home run. I have been a Met fan since they came into existence, but a Mays fan ever since...

TV ARTWill basketball never stop its invasion of the arts? Not content with inspiring a massive novel and an award-winning play (SCORECARD, May 29), it is now daring the Olympian heights of TV...

•Dr. Karl Kapp, of Basel University in Switzerland, at an international conference on the quality of life: "Had there been a computer in 1872 it would probably have predicted that by now there...

A wild publicity buildup sent obscure Ron Stander bouncing into the ring with Joe Frazier. After that, his head did the bouncing

Houston's amazing Astros rollick their way into a red-hot season with prodigious bats and potent arms

No race-rigged sails bellied out in a sharp wind off Newport, no pitching foredeck; none of that. This is calm adventure, still lifes passing one by one beneath the beamy hull of the good ship...

Disasters and delights of a rich baseball season include B. Powell's silent spring, D. McLain's demotion and a gaggle of young Fimrite investigates it all.

"Hey," said the publicity man, "I hear you got a farm." It was news to Sammy Davis Jr., but confirmation came a few days later when bills began to arrive—$6,000 for lumber, 58,800 for yearlings....

At ease at last in congenial Chicago, the former wanderer leads a new breed of Pale Hose

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The hottest thing around may be the warmup suit. It has shaped up, literally, and is as good for walking the dog as for running the mile

A couple of weeks from now two official, undefeated world champion bridge teams—Italy's famous Blues and America's Aces—will be competing in the World Bridge Olympiad for sole claim to the world...

This article is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, "Thirty Tons a Day," to he published by Viking Press. People have asked about the title. The following is by way of an explanation

Tons more trouble loomed ahead, what with the pols and Harvard, hut it was the owner of Suffolk who took Bill Veeck for his last ride.

The night of June 25, 1952 may not have been the hottest in the history of New York City, but the suggestion that it was not would bring an instant argument from the 47,983 people who sweltered at...