On the Cover 83
A healthily combative marriage to psychiatrist William Rader, three stepchildren and Samantha (her first and last baby) convince Broadway-bound Sally Struthers that happiness is all in the family
Up Front 28
Balloonist heroes Ben Abruzzo, Larry Newman and Maxie Anderson are now rivals in a dangerous game of glory
Pastor to the Presidents, Billy Graham warns against mixing church and state
Fifty years after they were schoolmates, Nebraska radio station owner Max Brown will wed Muriel Buck Humphrey, Hubert's widow
Shannon Ryan says her new sect is not a cult like the one that killed her father, Congressman Leo Ryan, at Jonestown
In Their Own Words 43
The hostage crisis put new pressures on U.S. diplomats, say former Ambassador to Iran Richard Helms and his wife, Cynthia
Couples 52
The new right thinkers of the Reagan era are authors Midge Decter and Norman Podhoretz
Sequel 59
Once the "Kitten" of Father Knows Best, Lauren Chapin, now 35, battled cruel breaks and heroin before finding religion
Out of the Past 65
A salty excerpt from Harry Truman's just-published papers shows he was often disillusioned by his exalted state and offers a message to his presidential successor: Give 'em hell, Ronnie
Medics 77
Surgeon David McLone defends his controversial if lifesaving operations on newborns afflicted with spina bifida
Adventure 91
Singer Kenny Rogers' photo portrait of China shows that, as an artist, he's developing
On the Move 94
Michael (Congo) Crichton is now on his third career; he's been a doctor and author and now he's monkeying with movies
To the Top 107
He previously vamped in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but now it's mostly Mozart for Tim Curry, while his Amadeus co-star, British beauty Jane Seymour, plays the satanic seductress in ABC's East of Eden
Mail 4
People Picks & Pans 8
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee begin a spirited PBS run, and Kate Jackson rebounds—twice
Suzanne Somers' poetry proves surprisingly affecting, but Iris Murdoch's 20th novel is heavy going
Lou Rawls delivers a strong new LP and unpredictable jazz pianist Keith Jarrett tackles Gurdjieff hymns and his own symphonic Celestial Hawk
Paul Newman and Ed Asner play embattled New York cops in Fort Apache, the Bronx
Star Tracks 48
Melissa Gilbert dates her TV dad's son
Johnny Cash puts on a new face
Jackie Onassis pays homage to I.M. Pei
Burt Reynolds hobnobs with Captain Chaos
A gaggle of Nixons visits Sesame Street
Byron Janis and Reggie Jackson play a gig
People Puzzle 104
Chatter 110
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