18 After 88 Comes Zero
That is the arithmetic of basketball as Notre Dame rises up to end UCLA's wondrous
winning streak
22 Johnny Miller, Killer-Diller
But another streak grows eves: longer as golf's young hero posts an unheard-of
triple
24 Marcello Was No Fiasco
Lover, film buff, wild man, world-record holder, Marcello Fiasconaro excelled
in all categories in Los Angeles
26 Moscow Memo: Don't Get Byrned
Boris Spassky begins his chess title comeback facing a scholarly—and unintimidated—American
34 The Man with a Package
Come what may in the Ali-Frazier fight, Promoter Bob Arum, a true boxing heavyweight,
will be around at the finish
40 The Hound and the Hammer
Those ominous names belong to two hockey heavies who have helped keep the Philadelphia
Flyers aloft
58 No Shadows on the Beach
Palmas del Mar, a vast new resort, is rising in Puerto Rico. One backdrop: the
season's new swimsuits The Departments
13 Scorecard
46 People
48 College Basketball
53 Skiing
76 For the Record
79 19th Hole
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
Got the midwinter blahs? Forget the sunlamps, the saunas and the hot buttered
rums. Over the years we have found that the best antidote is the rejuvenating
sight of a pretty girl in a swimsuit against a backdrop of sun, sand and surf.
Have a look at the story beginning on page 58 and see if that doesn't make your
life seem brighter.
The seaside setting in this case is Palmas del Mar, a new resort community still
abuilding on the southeast coast of Puerto Rico. The color shots are the handiwork
of Photographer Jay Maisel, and the pretty girls in the latest swimwear fashions
were conjured up by Jule (pronounced "Julie") Campbell. Together they
make what Jule calls her annual "fun-in-the-sun project."
Fun, yes, but work for Jule, who must often stay up until the wee hours making
adjustments in next day's costumes—which is to say swimsuits. Jule personally
tests some of the 100 or so new suits she brings along, occasionally dashing in
and out of the surf to see if the colors run or the design impedes her flutter
kick. "There are two kinds of swimsuits," she says, "the beautiful
ones for looking at and the functional ones for swimming in. We want suits that
combine both qualities."
When Jule looks for models, she usually bypasses Manhattan, home of the willowy,
skeletal types so prized by the fashion magazines. Instead, she goes most often
to California where she finds an abundance of "wholesome, outdoorsy girls
who are—how should 1 put it?—fuller. The models we use have to be
proficient at sports and unafraid of going before the cameras without makeup.
They not only have to know how to swim but must enjoy doing things like trying
to climb a coconut tree or running down a beach."
They also occasionally have to take their lumps. Once, while shooting on a remote
beach on the Hawaiian island of Maui, one of our models ran afoul of a rock in
the pounding surf and wound up with her leg in a cast.
The model's day starts at the first blush of dawn. "The light for shooting
is best during the early morning hours and in the late afternoon," says Jule.
Well, doesn't that leave time for a little relaxing fun in the midday sun? "No,"
says Jule. "Noon to 3 p.m. is perfect for shooting underwater."
There are other occupational hazards. At Palmas del Mar, for instance, the construction
of the resort mysteriously came to a near standstill the very day the models arrived.
Jule, aware that the "high-leg" cut of this year's swimsuits would "expose
new areas," suggested that the models sunbathe in the nude so that they would
be more uniformly tan. To discourage Peeping Toms, she first found a suitable
balcony—one not overlooked by any work site—and then went to some
trouble to pin bedsheets around the balcony railings. But, as the construction
foreman heatedly pointed out a little while later, the balmy ocean breezes would
periodically blow the sheets—and the girls' cover—up into the air
for a moment, much to the delight of some 300 workmen who were standing vigil
on a nearby half-finished building.
Jule herself keeps trim by working out on the trapeze and the rings at a Manhattan
gym. She is never wanting for motivation. "If any woman wants to tone up
her figure," she says, "I have a surefire method. Just go to the beach
and hang around with some of the world's most beautiful women for a couple of
weeks and you'd be surprised how quickly you get into shape."
