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Pg… 18 Fighting the Genetic Odds: Despite One Defective Child, a Family Challenges Its Tragic Heritage. Photographed by Harry Benson. Text by Marion Steinmann
Pg… 28 A Horrifying Fall from a Balloon: A Young French Girl Clings on as Long as She Can, then Plunges to Her Death
Pg… 30 The Sudden Blooming of Ann–Margret: She Followed a Tough Road from "Sex Kitten" Days to the Big Breakthrough. By P. F. Kluge
Pg… 36 How Many Millions Should an F–14 Cost?: Rising Costs have the Navy's New Fighter in Trouble
Pg… 38 A Lost Child Who Didn't Want to Be Found: For Ten Days, a 9–Year–Old Boy Evaded Searchers in the Wyoming Mountains
Pg… 40 Close in Among the Elephants: After Four Years of Study, a Naturalist Reports on Their Tender, Intricate Family Life. By Iain Douglas–Hamilton. Photographed by Oria Rocco and Christian Zuber
Pg… 50 My Confrontation with General Patton: Old Blood and Guts was Enraged About the Artist's Cartoons of Unkempt Soldiers. By Bill Mauldin
Pg… 56 Water Babies: With Plenty of Pools to Fall Into, These Tots are Learning to Swim Before They Walk
Pg… 4 Editorial: Our New Five–Cornered World
Pg… 61 Parting Shots: Spiro Agnew's Month–Long, $1.2 Million Non–Event. By Hugh Sidey
Pg… 61 Parting Shots: Yoko Lennon's New Film has a Cast of 200–Flies. By Elsie Washington
Pg… 61 Parting Shots: Some Old Nickel Bargains Still Linger On
Pg… 6 Departments: Gallery: The Lonely Beauty of Canyonlands National Park, by John Loengard
Pg… 11–14 Departments: Reviews: John Updike Considers a New Translation of Dostoevsky's "The Adolescent," by Andrew R. MacAndrew
Pg… 11–14 Departments: Reviews: Joe David Brown's "Addie Pray" is Reviewed by Larry L. King
Pg… 11–14 Departments: Reviews: Richard Schickel Goes to Mike Nichols's Latest Movie, "Carnal Knowledge"
Pg… 11–14 Departments: Reviews: The BBC Television Series "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" is Reviewed by Cyclops
Pg… 17 Departments: Letters to the Editors