ON THE COVER 112
With her bombshell looks—and brass—rock's manic, irreverent Madonna abandoned dancing for disco stardom. Now she's bringing that saintly name to movie marquees
UP FRONT 28
A decade after Vietnam, PEOPLE searches for the men whose faces brought the war home to us, men like Vernon Wike
A Cambodian brother and sister, Sarom Taing and Hout Pich, are reunited with a little help from the wife of the Massachusetts governor
With a new life and a new look at 53, Elizabeth Taylor proves the talk of the town
TOP 43
Euphoric Jake Garn prepares to be the first Senator in space
OUCH 49
Simm Gottesman gives her friends the needle
TRENDS 50
The pogo stick is springing back
TRIBUTE 57
Diet guru Nathan Pritikin ends his pain with suicide
SPIRIT 63
Prof. John Hostetler explains why the film Witness hurts the Amish
FOOD 67
There's nothing fishy about Christian Petrossian, who buys caviar from Russia to sell to the West
MEDICS 71
Dr. Alan Jenkins works a new machine that crushes kidney stones
PAGES 77
Maia, Richard Adams' latest fantasy, reads like Waterbed Down
VIDEO 81
A sensible young doctor on St. Elsewhere, Howie Mandel quacks up in a comedy special
VOICES 86
At 84, herbalist Eva McKinney recalls a life of hard living and feisty loving on the Mississippi delta
SEQUEL 99
The Marines return to Iwo Jima for a 40th anniversary reunion with their onetime Japanese foes
GALLERY 106
Private railcars return as businessmen like Ross E. Rowland and John Hankins Jr. climb aboard
MOVE 119
Kathryn Harrold plays a cop wedded to her partner on MacGruder and Loud, but off the set she's a solo act
INVENTORS 127
Mathew Holzberg has one word for Paul Newman and other old-fashioned motorheads: plastics
IN HIS OWN WORDS 128
Mark Twain had them; so did Tchaikovsky. Nightmares, says Dr. Ernest Hartmann, may signal madness, genius or just plain anxiety
LOOKOUT 132
BODY 135
Air Force Major Arthur Ginsberg unveils a new eye chart
MONEY 136
Parents across the country are paying $40 and up to give their kids a Bear Hug
MAIL 4
PICKS & PANS 9
Robert Blake trades in his badge for a clerical collar in Hell Town and Cybill Shepherd catches Gregory Harrison's eye in Seduced
Should you junk your old turntable and LPs and buy a compact disc player? Here's a CD guide
Matthew Modine stars as a teen with grown-up troubles in Vision Quest
Conversations With Capote offers observations from the gossipy to the literary
Van Morrison continues through the years with his LP A Sense of Wonder
TAKE ONE 27
STAR TRACKS 52
Nightlife's a drag for Joan Rivers
Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli's gift has strings attached
Jane Seymour's royal date
Timothy Hutton and Sandra Bernhard debut à deux
PEOPLE PUZZLE 96
CHATTER 138
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