On the Cover 38
Yoda is the gnome to remember in The Empire Strikes Back, but the real tour de Force is his maker's; Frank Oz also created Muppets like Grover, Fozzie and Miss Piggy
Up Front 42
Mount St. Helens could have been worse, says volcanologist Don Swanson
Rejected for a co-op at River House, jeans queen Gloria Vanderbilt is going to court
The other Caribbean refugees—Haitian blacks—find a strong but lonely voice in the Rev. Gerard Jean-Juste
Sequel 51
Rocker Eddie Money backs the Berkeley judge who sent him to jail 10 years ago
Out of the Pages 57
A toddler doing trig? No, but author Glenn Doman says a 2-year-old can learn math
Losers 61
Victoria Bond gets no encore with the Pittsburgh Symphony
For a Song 65
Charley Pride didn't make the majors, but the black singer is in a league all his own
Jocks 71
Darleen Langlois de la Chappelle becomes Roller Derby's newest starlet
Split 77
Anita Bryant didn't believe in divorce until she needed one from Bob Green
In His Own Words 78
A cure for colds and a nasal spray to aid memory: just two breakthroughs on the horizon, reports Charles Panati
Crime 83
Some kids in Minnesota stand up before a jury of their peers
Couples 87
Newlyweds Clark and Chris Secor knew each other 61 years before they said "I do"
Medics 98
Call "Doctor" in La Crosse, Wis. and chances are someone named Gundersen will answer
Bio 101
Like a modern Grand Inquisitor, advocate Alice Tepper Marlin exposes the social lapses of Big Business
On the Move 111
Don Adams revives spy Maxwell Smart (and maybe his career) in The Nude Bomb
Body 117
There's hope for Patti Hansen and Cheryl Tiegs—model Kaylan Pickford is hot at 50
Lookout 124
Inventors 127
David Bergmann's Super Saucer floats on air, and his sales have taken off
Spirit 128
His parish is the pits, but it fulfills stock car chaplain Bill Baird
In the Money 132
Californians discover a new get-rich-quick scheme—the Pyramid Game
Mail 4
People Picks & Pans 12
Mary Tyler Moore and Jason Robards host Broadway's Tony Awards
Robert and Jane Hallowell Coles write of the crises of modern women
Eric Clapton's new live LP has its share of dead spots
Versatile Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte and John Heard make Heartb Beat a poignant movie
People Puzzle 90
Star Tracks 94
Bruce Davison really is an Elephant Man
Paul Newman wheels and deals in the Bronx
Rostropovich's silver wedding anniversary
Carrie Fisher meets another princess
Jack Nicholson okays The Shining
Brooke Shields goes native
Chatter 134
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