NATION
Nation: A Season for Taking Stock
Nation: Things You Never Asked
Nation: Superpower Smoke Signals
Nation: No Chip off the Old Block
THE PRESIDENCY: Recalling the Kennedys (THE PRESIDENCY)
Nation: Disco Beat in 1978 Politics
Nation: Re-Elected Leaders
Nation: After a Big Win, Carey Speaks Up
Nation: We Shall Go Forth
Nation: Killing for Smut
Nation: Cult Massacre
WORLD
IRAN: The Military Is in Charge (IRAN)
World: The Shah Is Not Giving Up
World: An Army with Two Missions
MIDDLE EAST: Close, Yet So Far Away (MIDDLE EAST)
CHINA: Teng's New Long March (CHINA)
SOVIET UNION: Who Is Dean Reed? (SOVIET UNION)
SCIENCE
Science: The Year of the Planets
HEALTH & MEDICINE
Medicine: Risky Abortions (Medicine)
Medicine: Boxer's Ban (Medicine)
SOCIETY
On Long Island: The Lost Season (American Scene)
Behavior: Margaret Mead: 1901-1978 (Behavior)
America's New Manners (Living / COVER STORY)
Arbiter Tish Baldrige charts the changing body language of U.S. culture