April 25, 1971
Booktalk
Yesterday
That's what the rodeo clowns had to have to distract the bulls and entertain the customers at the same time
TV Talk
Brief Reign
Heavily favored to destroy a rare nonvintage Montreal team and win the Stanley Cup again, Bobby Orr's Bostonians fell before the Canadien mystique and a fabulous rookie in the nets
Good Behaving won the Wood, which is not much help to Churchill Downs since Good Behaving is not a Derby nominee
Winner Gets Alcindor
The battered Baltimore Bullets and the numbed New York Knicks assaulted each other through seven games. When it was all over, the last barrier to the title was the most-feared team in basketball
Law Vs. Law
A century-old mining act permits almost anyone to grab off a chunk of public lands for his own purposes. Now it has come in direct conflict with the fledgling Environmental Act. A legal showdown is imminent
Kickboxer
Equipped with a fighting name and a handful of karate titles, muscular young Joe Lewis decided to invent his own sport. The trouble is, he has already run out of opponents to kickbox
People
Sporting Look
Baseball
...for the fences. No way it can last—not even the great Willie Mays will hit 162 home runs—but this has been the most explosive spring in 25 years
Hunting
Big-game awards may lead to remarkable achievements—or to frauds, fakes and bogus records
For The Record
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
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