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UPDATED 08/13/1979 at 01:00 AM EDT Originally published 08/13/1979 at 01:00 AM EDT

On the Cover 88
Moonraker's intergalactic grosses re-launch Lois Chiles, give Richard Kiel new dramatic bite and prove that, unlike Roger Moore, James Bond is ageless

Up Front 26

Swazi King Sobhuza II is the world's longest-reigning monarch—and, with 100 wives and 500 children, a real father of his country

Five years later, the Nixons look to the end of exile, seeing grandchildren plus a new life—and impact—in Manhattan

France's premiere feminist, Simone Veil, takes over as the first president of Europe's new parliament

After falling for Rolling Stone lady Anita Pallenberg, a teenager turns up an apparent suicide in Keith Richards' mansion

Bio 39
Spaceman Bill Lee isn't Canada's first astronaut, just a free-spirited southpaw from south of the border

Out of the Pages 48
Nathan Pritikin's diet-and-exercise program stirs hope among cardiac victims and controversy among doctors

Over the Tube 53
A slum childhood left her scarred, but with TV's Dorothy and a new movie, Linda Manz is into Tatum O'Neal turf

Discovery 57
Neurosurgeon Robert White pursues the innermost secrets of the brain—by transplanting animals' heads

In Her Own Words 65
Dinah Shore, Louise Fletcher and Merle Oberon all fell for younger men. Toni Tucci says it's happening all over

Host 73
Elite like John Travolta and Elizabeth Taylor meet to eat at Vincent Sardi's

On the Move 81
Carter nominee Paul Volcker heads for the Fed in a cloud of smoke

Couples 82
Avital Shcharansky hasn't seen husband Anatoly—a Soviet political prisoner—in five years, but she refuses to despair

Teacher 95
Ballerina Maria Tallchief is back at the barre as Chicago opera's director of dance

Out of the Past 103
Roger's name is still Mudd, but it's cleaner now that a Michigan relative restored the image of their martyred ancestor

Lookout 106

Twelve-year-old artist Hall Groat II

Five-foot Teamster trucker Donna Warner

Heroes 109
Boston police superintendent Ed Connolly is shot trying to free a half dozen hostages

For a Song 110
Rockers like Devo might put them down, but The Cars are speeding in the fast lane

Mail 4

People Picks & Pans 10

Maude's man Bill Macy and Garry Moore's sidekick Dorothy Loudon star on their own

The Music Makers rolls over everyone from Beethoven to Jerry Lee Lewis

Carly Simon's Spy sounds sexy even if it's no paean to romance

The wizard of martial arts, Bruce Lee, comes back to life, sadly, in Game of Death

Star Tracks 86

Scott Baio's fans get the lowdown

Rosalynn Carter goes to bat for Jimmy

Ben Crenshaw is beaned on the green

Sugar Ray Leonard meets his match

Marie-France Pisier slays Richard Jordan

Linda Blair goes roller disco with Jim Bray

People Puzzle 100

Chatter 112

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