Playboy (USA) Magazine Back Issue, February 1978
Playboy February 1978 Magazine ISSN: 0032-1478
COVER STORY
Ah, yes, it's February, the month of Saint Valentine. Playmate Hope Olson bears
no resemblance to any queen of hearts we've ever laid a stack of chips on, but
that's because photographer Claude Mougin got his inspiration from a 19th Century
playing card he bought in an antique store. Senior Art Director Kerig Pope, who
designed the cover, says he and Mougin "really put our hearts into it.- Honest.
He said that.
3 PLAYBILL
11 THE WORLD OF PLAYBOY
13 DEAR PLAYBOY
21 PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS
24 BOOKS
26 MOVIES
32B MUSIC
39 COMING ATTRACTIONS
40 THE NEW BODY SNATCHERS NAT HENTOFF
Anguish over their children's allegiance to the latest offbeat cults has driven
many parents into engaging the services of "deprogramers" who kidnap
the young converts and try to brainwash some sense into them. Meanwhile, religious
freedom is going down the drain.
41 DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS David BUTLER
We've all read those nice, slightly stuffy little capsule biographies of authors
at the end of magazine articles. Have you ever wondered how they would sound if
they told the truth? Here's how....
43 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR
47 PLAYBOY SEX POLL HOWARD SMITH
This month's question: Do you find that your lovers get turned on by being talked
to while making love?
53 THE PLAYBOY FORUM
59 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: DON MEREDITH—candid conversation
Dandy Don, ex-quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys and now a television teammate
of Howard Cosell and Frank Gifford on ABC's N.F.L. Monday Night Football, talks
about his life on and off the field.
78 WIRED TO THE TEETH—sports NEIL AMDUR
In both professional and amateur sports these days, you can't tell the pills without
a score card. Whether they're using cocaine or steroids, a lot of athletes are
getting by with a little help from their friends.
83 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE FOURTH KIND—pictorial
Perhaps the thought of experiencing intergalactic sex has never crossed your mind,
but after seeing this pictorial, you may want to go for a drive at night on an
Arizona desert with a box of candy and a dozen roses.
88 THE HUmma-porn-star">UmaN FACTOR—fiction Graham Greene
Despite the impersonal nature of the espionage business, conflicts of personality
do surface. Particularly if one spy doesn't approve of another spy's wife.
92 BEYOND THE BASICS—attire David PLATT
It used to be that all you needed was a blue suit, a sports coat and two pairs
of slacks, but today's man needs to stretch his wardrobe. We show you how.
96 PUSHED TO THE EDGE PART ONE: THE ICE CLIMB—article CRAIG VETTER
The author, who will admittedly do anything for money, has undertaken the task
of doing some of the most frightening things in the world and writing about them
for PLAYBOY. On his first venture, he scares himself nearly to death.
98 MEET HER IN ST. LOUIS—playboy's playmate of the month
If you're driving through St. Louis and a stunningly beautiful woman driving a
Triumph convertible pulls alongside, there's a good chance it's Janis Schmitt,
a Bunny at the St. Louis Playboy Club.
110 PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor
112 JAMBALAYAl—food THOMAS MARIO
It's probably New Orleans' greatest contribution to American cuisine, and you
can smell this creole dish's mouth-watering aroma and savor its spicy flavor without
going to Louisiana.
113 SAZERAC!—drink EMANUEL GREENBERG
You'll need a little something to drink along with your hot jambalaya, so here's
how to have a Mardi Gras celebration in your own dining room.
114 THE FEMALE EGO—essay JULES SIEGEL
With the sexes firing volleys at each other, the author comes up with a novel
solution for the battle-weary man: Change your name to Ms. and pass.
117 WAY DOWN WEST IN MEXICO—travel David STANDISH
Some call it the new Riviera; plan now for your own leisurely vacation on Mexico's
west coast and avoid the winter tourist rush.
123 THE ALBERT/ALBERT EXCHANGE—humor. RICHARD LIEBMANN-SMITH
When the two Nobel Prize-winning Alberts, Einstein and Schweitzer, conducted a
historic correspondence, you would expect their letters to have been .full of
weighty matters, wouldn't you? Hah!
124 THE END OF THE WORLD—article ....SENATOR GEORGE McGOVERN
With our military-industrial complex riding high, it will be a miracle if we aren't
blown off the face of the earth before the end of the decade.
127 PLAYMATES INTERNATIONAL—pictorial
A delightful international array of some of the most beautiful women to appear
in the foreign editions of PLAYBOY.
137 EUREKA! I'M COMING—article JOHN LOBELL
Remember the lusty virgin in high school you called a prick tease because she
built you up but never gave satisfaction? You should thank her. She was making
you more creative all the time.
139 PLAYBOY PAD: LOFTY AMBITIONS—modern living
In New York's Soho district, where artists are rehabilitating factory lofts, an
architect has the kind of pad we'd like to work and play in.
142 THE VARGAS GIRL—pictorial Alberto Vargas
143 THERE'S ROOM FOR TWO—ribald classic MARQUIS DE Sade
146 GOING TO NEW LENGTHS—modern living
Video cassettes are stretching out, timewise, so now you can watch and watch.
148 PLAYBOY FUNNIES—humor
159 PLAYBOY'S PIPELINE
Plastic foods, a hi-fi check list, safe-deposit boxes and collecting Detroit cars.
186 THINK TANK
The case of the frgzen penis, women and dirty movies, powdered alcoholic drinks,
indoor pollution and more.
194 PLAYBOY POTPOURRI
207 PLAYBOY ON- THE SCENE
Fancy kitchen gear, personal computers and some different ways to ski.
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