16 Still Three For One
Jimmy Connors won the Colgate Grand Prix but failed to settle the vexing question
of who's No. 1—he, Borg or Vilas by Curry Kirkpatrick
20 Come, Watson
..the game's afoot. And Tom responded to the call from Tucson for the fist PGA
event of the year by winning in style by Dan Jenkins
22 Land of the Ice-cold Eyeballs
Skiing through an ice fog, two sisters-in-law and a brain trainer won big at the
national cross-country championships by William Oscar Johnson
24 Doomsday for the Orange
Dallas' Doomsday II defense should prevail over the Orange Crush when the Cowboys
and Broncos clash in Super Bowl XII by Joe Marshall
30 Practice Didn't Make Perfect
For the 1970-71 Princeton hockey team, the reward for all its hard work was one
victory and 22 defeats by E. M. Swift
34 Brazil Is Really Perking
Whether worn on beaches or in the jungle, the new swimsuits are designed to really
bag the rays by Jule Campbell and Walter looss Jr.
The author finds that piranhas prefer well-done steak, while the snook with the
faraway look fancy shrimp hindquarters by Clive Gammon
56 Sooper Dooper
Transcripts of phone calls made by visitors to last year's Super Bowl provide
a revelatory glimpse of what the game is all about by Frank Deford The Departments
11 Scorecard
50 College Basketball
75 For The Record
76 19th Hole
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
You have already guessed that this is not a photograph of the counselors at Camp
Darkwaters, right? In truth, these jolly people looking at the birdie in the jungle
city of Manaus, Brazil were among those responsible for our annual resort and
swimsuit act, which begins on page 34. They appear to be very cheerful here—but
there were times when they felt like crying.
Take model Christie Brinkley. She is not shown above because—well, she couldn't
make it. She and model Maria Joao were photographed on the beaches of Bahia, where,
on the first day, Christie misjudged the strength of the Brazilian sun. Near the
equator, it rises at 4 a.m. and by 8 a.m. is as strong as it is at noon farther
north—or south. Christie was badly burned, and on the second day, she says,
"I wanted to open my eyes, but they were swollen shut." She had scorched
part of her stock in trade. "I hoped my face wouldn't peel," she says,
"but, alas, my forehead looked like a map of Africa." Christie put ice
cubes on her eyes, then steamed her face and rubbed the skin off. She covered
the principal remaining blemish with sand for the day's shooting and thenceforth
got up at 1:30 a.m. to allow her swollen eyes to unpuff before work. For the rest
of the assignment she put the sun to use, patiently squeezing limes over her head
so that her hair became bleached to a much lighter blond.
The 4 a.m. sunrise meant that the group had to be ready to leave the hotel at
3 a.m. "Each year I ask everyone to bring an alarm clock, and they never
do," says Staff Writer Jule Campbell, who annually puts this act together.
"So this time I was running up and down the halls at 2:30, knocking on doors
in my night-gown while guests in evening clothes were going up to bed." Models
Monique Moura de Carvalho and Cheryl Tiegs had other problems. The intense humidity
of the jungle near Manaus "made it hard to keep your makeup from melting,"
Cheryl says. A dugout canoe they were using leaked. While Photographer Walter
Iooss tried to focus, the boatman bailed, joggling the canoe, and at one point
Steve Ross, Iooss' assistant, observed that the craft was in fact sinking fast
into waters said to harbor crocodile-like caimans. "If we had fallen in,
it would have been awful," says Cheryl. "There was so much vegetation.
With spiders on top." When Iooss asked her to dangle a foot in the water,
Cheryl immediately began visualizing piranhas, and suggested that Iooss and Campbell
improve her odds by each offering a foot as well. No piranha took the bait, but
Cheryl did get nipped by a monkey while handing it a Coke.
Ultimately, the entire crew returned safe and essentially sound with results that
seem to us more than worth a little sunburn, sleeplessness, piranhaphobia and
a monkey bite. We hope you will agree.
