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UPDATED 05/28/1979 at 01:00 AM EDT Originally published 05/28/1979 at 01:00 AM EDT

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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