3 PLAYBILL
11 DEAR PLAYBOY
19 PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS
22 MOVIES Gene Wilder's directing debut and Stanley Kubrick's long-awaited opus.
28 BOOKS
Both John V. Lindsay and William F. Buckley, Jr., have written first novels about
the United States Government. Is truth, indeed, stranger than fiction?
30 TELEVISION
An Edith Piaf bio headlines a fortnight of PBS specials.
32 RECORDINGS
A roundup of top-drawer female vocalists, plus John Lennon's Shaved Fish
34 THE MIDDLE-CLASS SQUEEZE CRAIG KARPEL
35 HELP! PLEH! L. RUST HILLS
41 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
45 THE PLAYBOY FORUM
53 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: NORMAN LEAR—candid conversation
TV's greatest impresario (All in the Family, Maude, Sanford and Son, et al.) talks
about power and censorship and introduces some new shows in progress.
72 HOW TO DO EVERYTHING—article PETER PASSEL
Advice, by a co-author of The Best, on how to repel sharks, how to cure insomnia,
how to predict your life expectancy and much, much more.
76 ENCORE EMMANUELLE!—pictorial
Next to this steamy sequel, Emmanuelle I looks like a boy-scout jamboree. Sexy
Sylvia Kristel resumes, with added kinkiness, her romp through Bangkok.
84 BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN—personality JAMES R. PETERSEN
The budding superstar from Asbury Park, New Jersey, has been the subject of some
pretty strong hype. Our author, a longtime fan, follows this living legend on
a cross-country tour and gets to know the real man behind the new myth.
87 JOGGING CAN KILL YOU!—article J. E. SCHMIDT, M.D.
So you think running a mile a day will keep the doctor away? No such luck. Our
well-informed author gives the definitive low-down on the bodily wreck you can
make of yourself in the hallowed name of physical culture.
88 PLAYBOY'S GUIDE TO THE RITES OF SPRING—survey
Sure, there are literally thousands of nice, sunny places you can go this season
for your college spring break. But where will all those gorgeous bikinied girls
be? Read our authoritative survey and find out.
94 SISTER ACT—playboy's playmate of the month Ann Pennington, whose sister Janice was our May 1971 centerfold, proves that beautiful
things run in her family.
104 PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor
106 WHO CAN ARREST YOU?—article LAURENCE GONZALES
Damn near anybody, or so it seems. A scary look at the proliferation of public
and private fuzz in this country by one of the biggest paranoids around.
109 STRING FEVER—modern living
A positively sensuous, not to mention educational, survey of the best—and
we mean the best—guitars (acoustic, classical and electric) money can buy.
114 THE AUTUMN DOG—fiction Paul Theroux
The author of the best-selling Great Railway Bazaar spins an intriguing tale about
a May—November romance and an obscure Chinese sexual position.
117 THE PULLOVER: GET IT ON!—attire
A new-old casual look to help you segue handsomely into spring.
118 THE 1976 DEMOCRATIC HANDICAP—article DICK TUCK
Ever wonder what really goes on in those smoke-filled rooms? Our author, the most
celebrated political prankster of our time, turns his attention to prognostication.
Who'll be our next President? Read it here first.
121 FIRE BELLE—pictorial
Last April's Playmate, Vicki Cunningham, grew up with a fantasy about fire fighting.
Fortunately, she can light fires better than she can put them out.
129 THE CONTRACT—ribald classic
131 SPRING TONE-UP—attire ROBERT L. GREEN
Everybody has his favorite color, but how many men would wear monochromatic pants,
shirt and jacket? Not only is it possible, it's cool.
134 THE GOLDEN WHATEVER—fiction Jordan CRITTENDEN
A huge conglomerate buys a small neighborhood violin shop—the result is
a new violin spin-off and some crazy mayhem.
137 PLAYBOY'S HISTORY OF ASSASSINATION—article .. JAMES McKINLEY
Louisiana's Huey "Kingfish" Long was a powerful demagog and possible
political threat to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Unanswered questions persist
to this day about his assassination. Conspiracy buffs, note.
140 SCI-FFI SEX—humor,, Michael FFOLKES
A spaced-out cartoonist's-eye view of extraterrestrial erotica.
148 THINK TAW
Quick hits on moonshining, flywheels, organic smoking and biorhythmic betting.
164 PLAYBOY POTPOURRI
