Playboy July 1976

COVER STORY This month's cover, featuring 1974 Playmate of the Year Cyndi Wood, is an update of those turn-of-the-century Fourth of July postcards, tobacco cards and posters showing Lady Liberty swathed in the Stars and Stripes and clad in the classic Greek chiton of the Statue of Liberty. As you can see, our ubiquitous, if sometimes obscure, Rabbit is formed by Cyndi's hair covering part of a star. 3 PLAYBILL 11 DEAR PLAYBOY 19 PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS 22 MOVIES Bergman's new landmark film, plus a socko sequel to That's Entertainment! 26 MUSIC Albums by Olivia Newton-John, The Captain & Tennille, Dory Previn and Bootsy's Rubber Band; also, a backstage visit with the ageless Dave Brubeck. 34 PRESS Time magazine: People who live in glass publishing houses. . . . 36 BOOKS The latest works by Gail Sheehy, William Kotzwinkle and Peter De Vries. 38 FORBIDDEN WORDS THOM RACINA Dirty words are so commonly used these days, they've lost their shock value. Our author suggests some sleazy alternatives. 39 FORBIDDEN GAMES GARRY WILLS Are Pope Paul VI's encyclicals on sexual conduct trivializing sex? 43 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR 47 THE PLAYBOY FORUM 55 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: KARL HESS—candid conversation Barry Goldwater s erstwhile ghostwriter-guru turned redneck anarchist talks about how the country went wrong, sex on the Goldwater campaign trail and how he lives through bartering. 74 BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY—memoir RON KOVIC In the most powerful description yet of the horrors of Vietnam, the ex-Marine author tells how he was blown away in that tragic war. 78 THE FIRE THIS TIME—personality VERNON GIBBS Composer Gil Scott-Heron has been called the black Bob Dylan: He doesn't appreciate the comparison. A revealing profile by a young black writer. 81 JAYNE'S GIRL—pictorial Her mother was a movie sex symbol and our February 1955 Playmate. We now present the equally spectacular Jayne Marie Mansfield. 89 ART BUCHWALD'S BICENTENNIAL ALBUM—humor. . ART BUCHWALD Until now, we never really knew what the founding fathers were up to. Historian Buchwald sets us straight. 92 DO YOU KNOW LILY TOMLIN?—personality LOUISE BERNIKOW When the crazy, gifted Lily Tomlin goes on tour, the side of her that television viewers never see emerges as a raunchy lady who passes out vitamin pills and disappears—often frighteningly—into her many characters. 95 SO YOU WANT TO BE A SEX OBJECT?—humor .. G. BARRY GOLSON Are women whistling at you? Pinching your posterior? Ogling the cut of your jib? Where will it all end? 96 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE—playboy's playmate of the month Following Horace Greeley's advice ("Go West, young person"), Deborah Deborah Borkman busted out of Painesville, Ohio, and split for the Coast. Smart move. 106 PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor 108 LAST ONE OUT—fiction DAVID ELY As a publicity stunt, a Hollywood PR man gets an ex-sailor to pose as a lost World War Two survivor on a deserted island. Well, almost deserted. 110 HOT DOG!—food EMANUEL GREENBERG What better time to give three cheers for the All-American snack? 112 CITY SHORTS—attire The Pittsburgh Steelers' defensive front four play it cool for summer. 115 PLAYBOY'S HISTORY OF ASSASSINATION—article.. JAMES McKINLEY In the conclusion of our seven-part series, the murder of Robert F. Kennedy and the attempts on the lives of George Wallace and Gerald Ford still present us with puzzling evidence and questionable motives. 122 KRIS AND SARAH—pictorial In the sexiest star pictorial ever, Kris Kristofferson and Sarah Miles steam up the lenses in scenes from their new movie, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, and a special shooting for PLAYBOY. 128 THE SOUL OF SARAH—pictorial In poetry (her own), prose (by Contributing Editor Bruce Williamson) and pictures, a fascinating look at the Miles mystique. 131 GAWAIN AND THE SCARLET LADY—ribald classic 132 THE PLAYBOY BOAT STABLE—modern living BROCK YATES For only half a million, you can have six (count 'em, six) seaworthy craft with which to stock your very own private marina. 139 A FEAST OF SNAKES—fiction HARRY CREWS Rattlesnakes and a hate-love relationship between an ex—baton queen and an ex—football hero are the ingredients in this tough, erotic tale. 141 LOOKIN' GOOD—attire DAVID PLATT Elegant fashions to help you make it stylishly through the summer. 144 POOR ROWLAND'S ALMANACK—humor ROWLAND B. WILSON A cartoonist's-eye-view of Early America—or Ben Franklin never did it so good. 168 ON THE SCENE—personalities Producer Tony Bill, hi-fi mogul Bernie Mitchell and comic Chevy Chase. 184 PLAYBOY POTPOURRI