Playboy's The Best From Playboy # 9

4 WHITE LIES—fiction by Paul Theroux PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor 10, 78, 141 11 PLAYMATES INTERNATIONAL—pictorial France Elizabeth Plaza Japan Yue Ching (Japan) Germany Ursula Buchfellner, Doris Anders, Beate Grotzinger, Jasmin Kompatscher, Anna Thorberg, Bea Fiedler, Marie-Luise Gassen. Mexico Patricia Morales Brazil Darcy Aleixo Italy Katia Scolari 18 JERRY LEWIS, BIRTHDAY BOY—personality by O'Connell Driscoll 31 CLASS REUNION—humor by Phil Interlandi 34 GREAT BARS/GREAT DRINKS—drink by Emanuel Greenberg 41 THE FINE ART OF BEING THE BOSS—article by J. Paul Getty 45 THE BLACK CAT—ribald classic 46 THE PUBLIC-SEX BREAKTHROUGH—article by James R. Petersen 54 MY NIGHT AT PLATO'S RETREAT—humor by Buck Henry 57 PLAYBOY PAD: LOFTY AMBITIONS—modern living 60 THE HENRY MILLER DAWN PATROL—fiction by Philip Jose Farmer 66 WORD PLAY—satire by Robert Carola 67 CLARK GHENT'S SCHOOL DAYS—humor by Robert S. Wieder 71 THE VARGAS GIRL—pictorial by Alberto Vargas 72 YOU BET YOUR LIFE—article by Brock Yates 79 MOONS IN JUNE—pictorial Models include Rita Lee, Debra Jo Fondren, Nicki Thomas, Bebe Buell, Christine Maddox, Cyndi Wood, Patricia Margot McClain, Denise Michele. 82 ASTRAL PROJECTION AND THE HORSE THAT COULD COUNT—article by Carl Sagan 89 THE WAGE SLAVES—humor by Rowland B. Wilson 94 BRIEF ENCOUNTERS—pictorial 103 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: AL PACINO—candid conversation 126 ONCE MORE WITH FONDREN—pictorial 136 THE FAINT—fiction by John Updike 142 LITTLE ANNIE FANNY—satire by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder