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UPDATED 08/31/1981 at 01:00 AM EDT Originally published 08/31/1981 at 01:00 AM EDT

On the Cover 74
As The Empire Strikes Back again, star Mark Hamill, approaching 30 at lightspeed, strikes off in search of success on Broadway

Up Front 18

On the fourth anniversary of Elvis' death, shocking new revelations question Colonel Parker's management—or was it mismanagement?

New York-bred Vladimir Pozner emerges as a TV star—in Moscow

Iran raider Charlie Beckwith leaves the Army—to wage a civilian war on terror

Viet vet Robert Schwab searches the jungles of Laos for missing Americans

In His Own Words 33
Psychologist David Jenkins says air controllers are not the only people affected by job stress

Host 38
Michael O'Keeffe's River Café serves up gastronomic and visual delights

Couples 45
Debby Boone and Gabriel Ferrer have a marriage made in Hollywood

In Style 54
A real-life Jeeves named Stanley Ager offers helpful household hints

Coping 56
English actress Susan (The Forsyte Saga) Hampshire describes her lifelong duel with dyslexia

Bio 62
James Baker III once led the battle against Ronald Reagan; now he's doing the President's fighting for him

Lookout 73
Ballerina Amanda McKerrow dances off with Moscow gold

Adventure 80
Forget Capistrano; Max Bloesch brought the storks back to Switzerland

For a Song 82
The durable Moody Blues, still on their own wavelength, top the charts again

Body 84
Jackie O looks best in Winter shades, and Robert Redford has that Autumn glow—so says Color Me Beautiful author Carole Jackson

Over the Tube 93
In a TV documentary, writer Larry King moves from Texas' Best Little Whorehouse to its Austin statehouse

Mail 4

People Picks & Pans 9

Well, la-di-da: Woody Allen and Diane Keaton repeat in Annie Hall, and Richard Thomas mourns James Dean in 24 Hours of the Rebel

Joyce Maynard's first novel, Baby Love, movingly explores the relationship between women and their offspring

Miles Davis returns with the engaging The Man With the Horn; John Denver's Some Days Are Diamonds will neither win new friends nor influence old critics

Bo Derek, no plain Jane, shows Miles O'Keeffe who wears the loincloth in the family in Tarzan the Ape Man; Sylvester Stallone plays a soccer goalie, but it's he who is saved by an invigorating plot in Victory

Star Tracks 48

Eileen Fulton consoles de-palimonied Michelle Triola Marvin

Paul McCartney and son James Luis go to the market

Harriet (as in Ozzie and) approves son David Nelson's horse opera

Tom Bosley is honored by performers he helped

The Oak Ridge Boys are on Scout's honor

Melissa Gilbert's little house rocks

People Puzzle 88

Chatter 96

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