Playboy August 1977

COVER STORY This month's cover features December 1971 Playmate Karen Christy, who last graced our cover on February 1974. Karen is now working as a fashion model in Dallas. The cover was conceived and designed by West Coast Photo Editor Marilyn Grabowski and shot by photographer Phillip Dixon. Says Dixon: "I tried to capture what the aftermath of a pillow fight would look like—sort of messy but erotic." 3 PLAYBILL 9 THE WORLD OF PLAYBOY 13 DEAR PLAYBOY 21 PLAYBOY AFTER HOURS 24 EVENTS Playing the skin game: PLAYBOY correspondent covers a tattoo convention 26 MOVIES A Bridge Too Far earns a rave review; Jodie Foster makes dirty old men out of us all; Citizens Band crackles with energy. 32 MUSIC Flora Purim talks about her life since the drug bust; Emerson, Lake and Palmer wax four sides; our girl Lindsay goes to a kazoo concert. 37 BOOKS Roger Kahn bats .500; Witcover produces the campaign book. 38 ARMS, ANYONE? PETER J. OGNIBENE If military weapons were sex, the United States would be the all-time hooker—we're selling them to almost everybody. 39 GIVE THEM AN INCH JIM DAVI DSON A caustic put-down of the metric system that looms over us all. 43 THE PLAYBOY ADVISOR 47 PLAYBOY SEX POLL HOWARD SMITH and BRIAN VAN DER HORST Both sexes are asked if they would have sex with someone for something they wanted. The second question is whether they would tell someone who wanted something from them that they had to have sex with them to get it. 51 THE PLAYBOY FORUM 59 PLAYBOY INTERVIEW: HENRY WINKLER—candid conversation The "Fonz" talks about the joys and pains of his career; how he's handled fame, success and groupies; and how he lost his virginity. 74 THE HONOURABLE SCHOOLBOY—fiction JOHN LE CARRE From the author of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, a new tale about a British secret agent masquerading as a journalist in war-torn Pnompenh. 81 RIVERBOAT GAMBOLERS—pictorial Playmate of the Year Patti McGuire and friends are photographed on a raft trip down the Colorado. The Grand Canyon is now grander. 88 WHITE-WATER RAMBLERS—article EDWARD ABBEY Rafting down the Colorado's rapids is child's play to the author of The Monkey Wrench Gang—he does it in a dinky little dory. 92 A MOVIE TOO FAR—article MARJORIE ROSEN On location with the cast of the biggest World War Two flick yet. Deventer, Holland, may never be the same after the making of A Bridge Too Far. 95 KILL THEM AND EAT THEM—opinion JULES SIEGEL A final solution for what to do when the Martians land. 96 BIRD ON A WIRE—playboy's playmate of the month Julia Lyndon loves to ride horses and talk on the phone. Her dream is to have a portable phone installed on her saddle. 108 PLAYBOY'S PARTY JOKES—humor 111 FEET OF PLAY—attire DAVID PLATT Sports footwear to help you kick up your heels. 115 COHABITATION: THE TENDER TRAP—article .. EMMA STEVENS and STEPHEN HOLMES You don't have to be married these days to get divorced, and the courts say you can't avoid alimony, either! 116 AUTO EXOTICA—pictorial Out-of-the-ordinary wheels for the maverick motorist. 122 PLAYBOY'S PRO FOOTBALL PREVIEW—sports ANSON MOUNT It's that time again. See if you can beat our peerless seer's predictions. 125 "MADAME CLAUDE"—pictorial On-and-off-the-set photos of a movie that pans in on Paris' most famous house of pleasure. 134 TYING ONE ON—pictorial Playmate Karen Hafter teaches us some tricks with a swimsuit. 137 PUSSY'S IN THE WELL—ribald classic PIETRO ARETINO 142 PLAYBOY'S PLAYMATE PHOTO CONTEST—pictorial Our first-prize selection and the ten runners-up. 149 LITTLE ANNIE FANNY—satire .. HARVEY KURTZMAN and WILL ELDER 168 THINK TANK Ginseng, lasers, bee pollen and holes in the head. 184 PLAYBOY POTPOURRI 202 PLAYBOY ON THE SCENE Table lamps, new 'audio gear and summer playthings.