Pg… 4 Editor's Note.

Pg… 7 the View from Here: the Art of Evading the Painful Truth, by Loudon Wainwright.

Pg… 9 Camera at Work: on His 100th Birthday FDR Is Remembered in Snapshots.

Pg… 18 Letters.

Pg… 23 Portrait: David Attenborough, a Prince among Communicators, by Robert Emmet Ginna.

Pg… 30 the $200 Billion Arsenal: a Preview of US Nuclear Weapons for the 80s.

Pg… 44 in Exile in America: LIFE Visits Solzhenitsyn

Pg… 50 the Razzle–Dazzle of "Dream Girls": Michael Bennett's Rags–To–Glitter Musical Electrifies Broadway.

Pg… 62 Treating the Emotions: Part 1 of a LIFE Series: the Skeleton at the Feast, a Study of Anorexia Nervosa, by Anne Fadiman.

Pg… 78 Avant–Glass: New Techniques Alter an Ancient Art.

Pg… 86 Fernando's Hideaway: Dodger Rookie Valenzuela Winters down Mexico Way.

Pg… 91 Each Note a Chiseled Gem: a Young Cellist from Britain and Rolls the Judges at an American Competition.

Pg… 96 Christie Brinkley Takes the Plunge: Resort Wear for the Ages.

Pg… 106 Life around the World: Smuggled Photos of the Polish Crackdown.

Pg… 112 Just One More. : Cover Photograph by Patrick Demarchelier