On the Cover 52
Everything's coming up The Rose for Bette Midler; she's found a "beautiful" man, been likened to Streisand and is now a queen of cinema as well as camp
Up Front 14
The strange case of Ted Bundy: Police and prosecutors say he's a killer; his friends say he's the wrong man
Two sluggers named Norman Mailer and Ryan O'Neal mix it up in a New York ring: Cinema 1, Literature 0
Former GM executive John Z. DeLorean shakes up his old company and revs up a competitor
To the Top 29
Indian beauty Persis Khambatta took it all off (her hair, that is) for Star Trek, but was it worth it?
Adventure 33
As Kenya's anti-poaching chief, Ted Goss wages a bloody life-or-death battle to save elephants and rhinos from extinction
Bio 38
Author James Baldwin is still preaching, but his message is different from his racial pleas of the '60s
In Style 46
For affluent singles hungry for a date, Abby Hirsch is the godmother
Winners 48
Hollywood stunt man Stan Barrett blasts through the sound barrier in a rocket car
Happy 50
His love ballads never made it, but Roger Hallmark hits with a hate song: A Message to Khomeini
Inventors 56
Ann Dewar has tongues wagging about her hopeful new device to aid stutterers
Couples 62
At the White House Conference on Families, Jim Guy and Betty Tucker learned their own marriage is typically atypical
Arts 66
Mexican painter Diego Rivera still leapfrogs through the life of his amor, Lola Olmedo—20 years after his death
Jocks 68
Sixteen months after his crippling football injury, Darryl Stingley says, gratefully, he can feel pain at last
In Her Own Words 70
Concluding a two-part interview, Rosalynn Carter talks about her frustrations and joys as a First Lady, mother and political wife
For a Song 76
Fear of Music wasn't the Talking Heads' hangup, but the Top 40 LP that's made them the first group of egghead rock
Mail 3
People Picks & Pans 4
Frank Sinatra celebrates four decades in show business his way—with a multi-star TV retrospective
Spy master John Le Carre sends agent George Smiley back out in the cold
Peerless Stevie Wonder has crafted another challenging masterpiece—a Journey through the Secret Life of Plants
Director Bob Fosse and his star Roy Scheider may have invented a new form with the dazzling musical fantasy All That Jazz
Star Tracks 36
Who's Sammy Davis Jr. embracing now?
Robert DeNiro beefs up for The Raging Bull
John Belushi preens at his 1941 preem
Dustin Hoffman is nicely nosy
Pelé forgets his marriage at Regine's
People Puzzle 61
Chatter 78
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