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Feb 02, 1987 Vol. 27 No. 5

Laying Down the Law

February 02, 1987

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Laying Down the Law

Television Gets a Sizzling Series and New Rules for Treating Life and Love

Pg. 76

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Table of Contents

Articles

Lyndon Baines Johnson, An American Original

A Country Boy Who Galloped from Texas to the White House Rides Again in a Tv Version of His Early Years

Pg. 34

A Wrenching Separation Ends An Iowa Couple's Hope of Adopting the Five Cooper Kids

Pg. 40

Baba Says Ta Ta to Wills and Harry—the Question Is, Did Charles and Di Get the Nanny's Goat?

Pg. 44

A Teacher Pushes Migrants' Kids into College—and Gets Fired by His California School Board

Pg. 50

Sherlock Holmes

Here's a Clue to How Our Sleuth Has Lived to Be 100

Pg. 54

Glory of Love Singer Peter Cetera Left Chicago (the Band) for Idaho (the State) and Solo Success

Pg. 60

The Terribly English Mysteries of Martha Grimes Are a Welcome Addition to the Pub-Lic Domain

Pg. 64

In the Case of the Bum Rap Song, Richard Golub Courts Justice for His Fellow Lawyers

Pg. 71

Tennessee's New Governor Finds Good Fortune in a Cookie

Pg. 75

Street Crime Put Brian Brundage in Sing Sing; Basketball Sent Him to College

Pg. 84

Carol Lynn Pearson Pens a Moving Memoir on Her Gay Husband's Death from Aids

Pg. 91

So Long, Scarecrow

Pg. 98

Power Romance

Tired of Malibu Hunks? Consider Lee Iacocca, Sex Symbol for a Corporate Age. So What If He Doesn't Have a Body by Fisher

Pg. 100

For Pianist Bella Davidovich, Dmitry Sitkovetsky Is More Than Just 'my Son, the Violinist'

Pg. 107

Seattle's Gene Anderson Throws the Book at White-Collar Coke Users Who Once Knew No Fear

Pg. 111

Instead of Just Squeaking By, Retiree Mel Melton Snaps at the Chance to Easily Trap the Common Mouse

Pg. 114

If You Want to Lounge on a Love Seat in New York's Hippest Club, You'll Have to Get Nell Campbell's Okay

Pg. 117

Also In This Issue

Publisher's Letter

Pg. 6

Mailbag

Pg. 8

Take One

Pg. 33

Chatter

Pg. 120

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