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...current U.S. soccer boom contrasts sharply with the state of the sport in 1969, when the N.A.S.L. was down to five teams and on the brink of bankruptcy. Then Phil Woosnam took charge as league commissioner and rebuilt the sport. The N.A.S.L. now consists of 18 teams in cities from Vancouver to Tampa, and Woosnam expects to expand to 24 by next season. Says he: "It's the best investment in sports. Right now, all you need is $250,000 cash and the ability to cope with some initial losses." He seems to be right; half a dozen owners...
Carew is a fleet runner who legs out a good percentage of his hits each year. His speed provides a sure-fire method of breaking a slump: bunting. In fact, he lays down bunts better than anyone since Phil Rizzuto. Once in spring training he challenged a teammate to toss a sweater onto the infield, then rolled a bunt into its enveloping folds. The sweater was moved; he bunted dead center again. More than a dozen times, first on the third-base line, then the first-base side, he put the ball on target...
...final four. When he arrived at the tournament, his status as an unseeded player was so lowly that he was not even allowed to use the main dressing room Victories over New Jersey's Alex Mayer, Egypt's Ismail El Shafei and Australia's Phil Dent, among others, earned him access to the stars' dressing room -and center court...
...most severe hardships are being borne by Western farmers and ranchers. Oregon Cattleman Phil Lynch winced as he surveyed what had once been a brimming water hole but was now just mud. Said he: "That's a killer. A cow walks in looking for water and she bogs down in the mud. She gets weaker and dies." Lynch has been forced to liquidate almost half his herd of 2,000 calves and cows for lack of both water and forage or enough money to buy feed grain. He normally rotates livestock from one pasture to another as grass...
...addition to being the sweetest saxophone player (soprano and alto) this side of Stan Getz, Phil Woods is one of the toughest, most durable jazz masters. Originally a follower of Charlie ("Bird") Parker, Woods has survived the ups and downs of decades of jazz with a personal style that has never lost its passion or ingenuity. In this extended set, recorded during performance last November at the Showboat Lounge, Silver Spring. Md., he fronts a six-man combo working the mainstream of jazz today. Standard tunes are blended enticingly with originals by Pianist Mike Melillo, Guitarist Harry Leahey and Woods...