On the Cover 28
Feeling "burned out" after 19 years in pro tennis, Chris Evert, 25, makes "the toughest decision of my life" and puts her $1 million career on hold in favor of husband John Lloyd's
Up Front 32
Presidential candidate John Anderson finds it's lonely at the bottom
In a brash break for stardom, 11-year-old Tina Payne scandalizes even Hollywood
Was Ford's Pinto a killer? A DA and Watergate's James Neal take it to court
Out of the Pages 41.
No longer Looking for Work, Susan Cheever finds a novel profession just like her dad's
Over the Tube 45
Comedian David Letterman is an early favorite to fill Johnny Carson's chair
Medics 49
Dr. Anthony Daly's patients are the U.S. Olympic team—but he also offers second opinions to pros like Bill Walton
Crime 53
Chicago fireman John Steinmetz loses a heroic confrontation with arson
In Style 56
Hairstylist Mary-Lou Green struts her stunts on the likes of Deborah Harry and Rod Stewart
Happy 63
Voted the truckers' favorite deejay, Big John Trimble gets taken for a ride six nights a week
Bio 66
Rebel educator John Simon helps a school system's rejects make the grade
Jocks 76
Pro basketball's star of stars is Iceman George Gervin
Off the Screen 80
The latest Bottoms brother to land on top is Joe in Disney's Black Hole
Teacher 84
Lissome Lilias Folan is America's best-loved fitness yogi since Berra
In His Own Words 86
Which nations are heading for turmoil? Marvin Cetron computes a disturbing list
Song 90
Disco's not enough for Donna Summer—she's into pop-rock, motherhood and God
On the Move 96
Cartoonist Bud Sagendorf am what he am—the man behind Popeye
Lookout 102
Editor Tina Brown
Golfer Billy Mayfair
Adventure 105
Ex-housewife Jennifer Roy prospects for a grandmother lode of gold
In Trouble 111
A Tokyo drug bust brings hard days and nights to rock star Paul McCartney
On Stage 112
The show Siegfried and Roy put on in Vegas is positively beastly
Mail 4
People Picks & Pans 10
Bob Newhart chases Leigh Taylor-Young; and Bob Hope, Loni Anderson and Jill Clayburgh also highlight the TV week
The National Lampoon's 10th-anniversary anthology is often funny, always in bad taste
Tom T. Hall spins clever, cloying tunes, while Bob Marley wails back in force
Art Carney, George Burns and Lee Strasberg can't rise above a golden age caper film
Star Tracks 72
George Bush runs—daily
Studio 54's Steve Rubell gets down—in jail
Megan Marshack, meet Charles Addams
Cheryl Tiegs is hobbled
Frank Sinatra honors a Nazi-hunter
People Puzzle 108
Chatter 114
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