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Dec 29, 1980 Vol. 14 No. 26

Ronald Reagan Opens Up

December 29, 1980

Cover Story

Ronald Reagan Opens Up

The President-Elect Talks About His Health, His Children and His Divorce

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Table of Contents

Articles

The 25 Most Intriguing People of 1980

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Goldie Hawn

Private Benjamin Liberates a Beloved Dingaling, Promoting Her to Captain of Her Soul

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Lech Walesa

An Unemployed Electrician Becomes a Working-Class Hero to Poland and the Free World

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Colonel Charlie Beckwith

Failure Has No Fathers, Only a Hero—the Army's Rugged Hostage Rescue Commander

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Herbert Boyer

If Nothing Else, Genetic Engineering Can Turn a Scientist into a Multimillionaire

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Mary Cunningham

Blond, Beautiful and No Longer at Bendix, She's Looking for Room at the Top

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Fidel Castro

He Grinned After Solving 125,000 Problems, but Now He Faces a New One: Reagan

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Mel Weinberg

A King Con Artist Sets Up Abscam for the FBI and Snares Some Unsuspecting Politicians

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Sugar Ray Leonard

Who Is the Greatest? A Tough Little Man Wins the Championship and the Title

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Robert Redford

First Time Behind the Scenes, a Superstar Directs a Fine Film and Says: 'I'll Phase Out Acting'

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Jean Harris

Was Dr. Tarnower's Death An Accident or Murder? Only the Quiet Headmistress Knows

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Stephen King

A Mild Down-Easter Discovers Terror Is the Ticket

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Grete Waitz

A Swift Norwegian Teacher Gives the Cold Shoulder to the Other Women Runners in the World

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Baron St. Helens

A Diplomat's Name Lives on as a Killer Volcano

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The Rev. Jerry Falwell

A TV Preacher Sells America on Flag, Family and Freedom, of Sorts

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Pat Benatar

Rock Finds Its Missing Lynx: She's Doing Time in the Top 10 for What She Calls 'Crimes of Passion'

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Lee Rich

Like J.R.'s Assailant, the Producer Behind Dallas Aims to Please—and Does

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Sonia Johnson

In the Battle for the E.R.A., a Mormon Feminist Waits for the Balloon to Go Up

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Sam Shepard

Mr. Funk of Off Broadway May Be the Redford of the '80s—If He Can Play It His Way

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Richard Pryor

Having Been Through the Fire, He's Back with a New Self And, He Says, No Bad Habits

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Eudora Welty

The Nation's Critics Bow Before the Small-Town Tales of a Masterly Southern Writer

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Soichiro Honda

The Henry Ford of the Japanese Auto Industry Is Known as 'Pop' to His Workers

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Beverly Sills

Bubbles from Brooklyn Has Stopped Singing and Begun Bossing the Company She Once Graced

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Dan Rather

Asked If He Can Hold Walter Cronkite's Audience, the New CBS Atlas Shrugged

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Brooke Shields

From Blue Lagoon to Blue Ads for Blue Jeans, Nothing Is Coming Between Her and Success

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Whatever Happened To...? An Update on Some 1980 Newsmakers

Ursula Andress Pampers Her New Man. Gordon Liddy Talks. Mackenzie Phillips Takes It One Day at a Time—Alone. Bert Parks Rebounds. Diego Asencio Is Anonymous Again.

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The Fame of the Name Is the Name of the Game Among Americans Named J.R. Ewing

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Happy Returns to James Bond, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Nylons, Rock'n'Roll and the Credit Card

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In Need of Food, Shelter and Hope, the World's 17 Million Refugees Are a Human Time Bomb

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Where's the Rest of Them? As Fame's Brief Candle Flickers, Five Fading Celebs Suffer Dimout

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Fast Cars and Strong Women: for Six Young Athletes, Their Best Is Very Close to Great

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Travolta Plunges, Streisand Defers, Nicholson Sizzles and Bo's in Search of a Swinger

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Hite Reports on Male Sex, Miss Piggy Takes Up Pen and Oink and Armageddon's Back in Fashion

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While Peter, Hodding and Jane Pray, Farrah Rides Again

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High Hopes for a Fiddling Ma and a Dancer Like Pa, a Sophisticated Lady and Another Billy Joel

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Perry Pushes Pants, Betsey Is Bringing Back the Mini, but Are We Ready for the Maxi Again?

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Enter a Rock Gospeler, the New John Anderson and Stevie Nixing Mac

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The Generation That Gave Us Spock and Rock Now Faces a Brave New Cause: Midlife

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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall—the Others Want a Change but Dolly Says She's Got It All

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Are Servicemen's Kids More Likely to Become Stars? The Theory Isn't, Well, Base-Less

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