On the Cover 84
With a little yelling and a lot of flattering, CBS' talented Don Hewitt has changed the history of TV news, but why aren't there any women correspondents on 60 Minutes?
Up Front 26
How Gavin MacLeod, Larry Hagman, Peter Strauss, Susan Saint James et al are coping with the threat of empty tanks
Former White House speechwriter James Fallows speaks out against his old boss
Lynda Bird Robb is the surprise choice to tell President Carter about women
Ding, dong, Olympic officials: Kathrine Switzer wants to sell you a women's marathon
Sequel 39
Jane Dubs, ex-wife of a slain ambassador, fights the Foreign Service
Couples 43
Michael and Melissa Sands turn their affair into a marriage, a business and a cause
In His Own Words 50
Optimism was a secret weapon in the battle of evolution, says anthropologist Lionel Tiger
To the Top 57
Charles Dinn built the largest roller coaster in the world to scare you witless
Winners 61
Tennessee's Oak Ridge Boys create high-energy fusion: gospel and pop
Host 69
In Paris, Anne Willan cooks Cordon Bleu's goose with her rival school, La Varenne
Teacher 73
Where there's smoke, there's John Romero, showing firemen how to survive it
Discovery 76
Dr. Louis Herman spends his time talking to dolphins—and getting answers
Happy 83
A 13-year-old ham radio operator, Mike Davis, saves three lives 3,000 miles away
Arts 101
Daniel Barenboim pursues his musical career and comforts his afflicted wife
For a Song 104
Nashville's Ray Stevens sends up the prince of pop with I Need Your Help, Barry Manilow
Jocks 107
Drag racing has brought Don Prudhomme to the big time and vice versa
Out of the Pages 111
Author Richard Smith says if sex doesn't keep you trim, try The Bronx Diet
Over the Tube 119
After dropping David Carradine and the name Seagull, Barbara Hershey flies again
Lookout 122
Jai alai star Freddy Griffin
NASA flight controller Jacquelyn Parker
Split 125
It's all Hollywood's fault, says Peter Sellers, as the bell tolls for his fourth marriage
Medics 126
A baby named Miracle beats the odds against an abdominal pregnancy
Mail 4
People Picks & Pans 10
Donna Reed returns to TV for the first time in 13 years, still primly appealing
After all the furor, the memoirs of Margaret Trudeau are exploitive—and sad
The Average White Band comes up a little below the mean in Feel No Fret
Woody Allen takes Manhattan in his masterpiece to date
Star Tracks 94
Treat Williams cuts for Cannes
Bianca Jagger switches courts on Mick
Barbara Bach: Angel thou never wert
Margaret Thatcher meets Helmut Schmidt
Farrah Fawcett-Majors' London exposure
Misha Baryshnikov pulls a Jimmy Cagney
People Puzzle 116
Chatter 128
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