ARTICLES AND FEATURES 35 FREE LUNCH FOR THE RICH: THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF PERKS Investigative report by Fred Ferretti So what if the president of MGM makes $194,000
a year? That's okay because you figure he earned it. But what about the other
$4,869,000 he gets on top of that—mostly tax-free. Such is the world of
perks, in which one gets cash bonuses,free cars,homes, and more, just because
a company wants him. What did your company give you?
44 INTERVIEW: ARIK SHARON
Old soldiers never die, they just become tough-skinned cabinet members. The toughest Israeli general around today explains how he defeated the Egyptians in the 1973 Yom Kippur War and gives America advice on how to deal with the Soviets.
46 FOOTSTEPS
Fiction by Harlan Ellison
When she saw the right man, her long delicate fingernails became claws. To her,
Paris was a walking feast. But one night everything changed.
62 WHEN NOBODY LOVES YOUR BABY BUT YOU
By Evan Barzel
You adore her, but your family and friends hate her. Are they right—has
love blinded you? Or is it their problem? We offer some suggestions.
75 PRIVATE LIVES: CONFESSIONS OF A CAMP COUNSELOR
Summertime, and the loving isn't easy. That is, until you meet a beautiful redhead like Nancy.
79 25 WAYS TO TURN HER OFF
Humor by Kay Marie Porterfield You're irresistible to women and bogged down with
calls from ladies on the make. Here are 25 sure-fire ways to turn the ladies off.
83 BREATHLESS: A REPORT ON AMERICAS AIR
By David Gancher
Clean air is essential to life. Too bad there's so little of it. Sulfur dioxide,
carbon monoxide, and particulates are slowly killing you. Second in a series of
Gallery reports on our threatened world.
86 THE ANNUAL DECEMBER DILEMMA
By Marc Lichter
Christmas is just around the corner. If you still haven't figured out what presents
to give and get, don't worry. It's Gallery to the rescue with today's hottest
gift ideas. PICTORIALS
39 A QUESTION OF BELONGING
Photographs by Geoff Howes
50 THE "GIRL NEXT DOOR"
Amateur Erotic Photo Contest
60 CENTERFOLD OF THE "GIRL NEXT DOOR" MONTHLY WINNER
64 GALLERY'S COVER GIRL CONTEST
Find out how you can win a weekend date in New York with this month's cover girl!
99 THE BIG CITY
Photographs by Michael Bramman DEPARTMENTS
8 FEEDBACK
Letters from our readers.
20 THE ASIMOV CHALLENGE
By Isaac Asimov
The fifth Mystery for you to solve in this series by the master storyteller.
22 PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS
By Jill Toffer
27 GALLERY'S YOU SECTION
Your Career Success by Mel Shestack
Your Alternative Choices by Eric Leonard
Your Body and Hers by Peter Frishauf and Katharine Rice
Your Leisure Hours:
Magic by Leonard Oxenberg
Music by Meridee Merzer
Screen by Tom Seligson
Books by Donald Newlove
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• List among my pet peeves: Restaurants that offer "white meat turkey"
on their menus, then serve turkey roll ... Airlines that arrive so late that you
miss your connecting flight, yet they're not obligated to give you a refund; but
just you arrive late and they have the right to give your seat away ... New York
taxis that are so dilapidated their shock absorbers are virtually gone, and you
feel as though you're in an eggbeater. Why can't -- fares be discounted according
to the comfort of the ride? You'd see some pretty fast tune-ups ... Television
commercials that are downright misleading, like the one that ends with the line,
"Without chemistry, life itself would be impossible." Comparing the
body's natural chemistry with dangerous, even fatal, pesticides and other chemicals
is like comparing apples to carrots.
• Apropos of that last gripe, I hope you had an opportunity to read the
first article in Gallery's new Environmental series; it appeared in last month's
November issue. It led with a sUmmary of the most shocking government report I've
ever had the misfortune to see: Global 2000. When I was first shown that sUmmary
in its original manuscript form of about 40 pages, I took it home over one weekend—and
cannot remember ever being so frightened out of my wits! Here was a report, requested
in 1977 by President Carter, completed in 1980, and representing the most authoritative
data available to the entire Executive Branch ... and among the projections outlined
for us simple folk to expect only 20 years from now are: twice as many people
crowding the globe; less food and water available; the extinction of some 20 percent
of the species living today; a demand for energy that exceeds even the world's
total production capability; substantial destruction of the atmosphere's ozone
layer that protects us from the sun's cancer-causing rays, etc., etc., etc. And
here's the clincher: the report states that this catastrophic situation may already
be beyond prevention. Only if all the world's leaders get together immediately
on a global cooperative plan do we stand even a chance of averting disaster. Question:
Did you hear a word about any of this at either of the political conventions?
• Picked up during a recent visit to Boise, Idaho: the origin of the name,
Owyhee Mountains. Seems back in the Gold Rush days, two sailors from a Hawaiian
vessel jumped ship in Boise and took off to make their fortune out in the hills.
What they didn't know was that those "hills" marked the beginning of
a no-man's land of rattlesnakes, scorching desert and other not-so-niceties. Our
friends were never again heard from, but locals named the "hills" after
them with a bastardized version of the word "Hawaii."
• Also from Boise, this true story about a recent confrontation between
a group of Oregon farmers and a young lady representing the Sierra Club. Confronted
with a serious problem of coyotes killing the farmers' sheep, the Sierra rep suggested
that—rather than slaughter the coyotes—some arrangement be made to
simply castrate them, thus controlling the spread of their population. Whereupon
one farmer stood up and explained, "Look, lady, you've got it all wrong.
The coyotes aren't fucking the sheep, they're killing 'em!"
With that good-natured poke at the Sierra Club—an organization whose aims
and accomplishments have our enduring support—we'll close the pad this month.
Until January, then...
