Cover: Barbi Benton

Playmate: Deanna Baker

Interview: Howard Cosell

Pictorials: Valerie Perrine; Monday's Childfeatures seven full page photos of models shot by J. Frederick Smith.

Features: Fiction by John Cheever,The Jewels of the Cabots, Arthur C, Clarke, When the Twerms Came,and Michael Crichton, The Terminal Man(conclusion); William Neely profiles world land-speed record breaker Craig Breedlove; John Clelland Holmes goes In Search of Los Angeles; Sol Weinstein humorizes, Chairman Mao, I Presume; Bestial Sex is four pages of whacky animal cartoons by Lee Lorenz; 2-page Vargas Girl; Tribute to Associate Publisher A. C. Spectorsky (died in January 1972).

Pages: 262