On the Cover 24
Football and hard drinking behind him, Joe Namath has a new game plan: to score in the Nielsens on NBC's The Waverly Wonders

Up Front 28

U.S. businessman Jay Crawford gets out of Russia with his freedom and his fiancée

With Keith Moon's death at 31, The Who loses its most eccentric talent

Charles Evers bids to become Mississippi's first black U.S. senator since Reconstruction

Off the Screen 39
Charles Grodin, Heaven Can Wait's flummoxed philanderer, proves that "a funny jerk" can get ahead in Hollywood

In His Own Words 43
Harvard's Dean Henry Rosovsky wants education to mean something again

Jocks 49
She's come a long way, baby, but tennis star Pam Shriver won't be satisfied till she's No. 1

To the Top 57
For the firefly-collecting Kraenzles, the hunt is over—but the glow lingers on

On Stage 60
The Smothers Brothers are back on Broadway, separate but equally billed in a ribald comedy

Happy 66
Baseball fans are clucking over Ted Giannoulas' chicken act

Spirit 68
Hopes for Brother Roger's monastery rest on faith, prayer—and salad dressing

Bio 72
Agent Tandy Rice is a country slicker who makes more than peanuts for good ole boys like Billy Carter and Tom T. Hall

In Trouble 80
Mistaken for a hooker, Susan Heeger throws the book at the cops who took her in

Arts 84
Dancer Ivan Nagy quits at 35 and leaves behind brokenhearted ballerinas

In Style 90
Cher, Richard Harris, Linda Ronstadt and Darth Vader all do it—roller-skate!

Teacher 93
Anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff finds a "tribe" to study in her own backyard

Medics 100
When a showbiz star needs a shrink, Dr. Eugene Landy usually gets the call

Out of the Pages 107
Ken Follett's Eye of the Needle puts him in a class with Le Carré and Forsyth

Couples 115
Anson Williams and Lorrie Mahaffey courted on TV, but they're marrying for real

Mail 4

People Picks & Pans 12

Mary Tyler Moore and McLean Stevenson return to TV in new vehicles, while Farrah Fawcett-Majors is back among the Angels

The case of mystery writer Edgar Box's identity is solved: he's Gore Vidal

Woody Allen's Interiors is no laughing matter

Frankie Valli slips back with Grease

Ancient Roots, New Visions presents a dazzling selection of Hispanic-American art

Star Tracks 97

Brooke Shields gets a scar

For Marisa Berenson life's a cabaret

Bed and breakfast with Ike and Mamie

The CIA fears David Janssen

Henry Fonda heads back to Broadway

Nelson Rockefeller cashes in

People Puzzle 113

Chatter 118

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