Kentucky Regains Top Ranking

The Kentucky Wildcats were back yesterday as the country's No. 1 college basketball team after an absence of one week. They may even be headed for a berth in the NCAA Basketball Tournament again and a chance for a fifth national championship.

North Carolina, which took the lead a week ago, skidded to third place after an upset by Maryland.

Kentucky and other Southeastern Conference teams wind up their regular season play this weekend and the NCAA tournament representative from that league depends upon a decision by Mississippi State.

Mississippi State, the nation's No. 5 team, leads the conference, but may shun NCAA play because of racial issues.

Carol Heiss Takes Lead

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Feb. 24--Ice queen Carol Heiss, poised and precise, swept into a strong lead Tuesday toward her fourth straight women's title in the opening phase of the World's Figure Skating Championships.

The 19-year-old coed from Ozone Park, N.Y., outclassed her chief rival, Hanna Walter of Austria, and 13 others in tracing the first three of six compulsory--or school--figures.

Miss Walter, the European title-holder was second, followed by a surprising college freshman from Temple City, Calif., Barbara Roles, 17.