Pg… 28 The Dirty Dilemma of Oil Spills: The Slick that Spread Over Tampa Bay Forces the Nation to Consider Whether We Can Save the Environment and Still Satisfy Our Enormous Demands for Fuel Pg… 36 Editorial: The Rhetoric of Ecology Pg… 42 The Vasectomy Alternative: A Report on One Man’s Experience with Sterilization as Scientists Search for a Male Contraceptive Pill Pg… 48 Surfing in the Desert Pg… 50 Through the Muck with Myra: Gore Vidal’s Novel Makes a Chaotic Transition to Film. By Calvin Trillin Pg… 54 The Flake and the Old Man: Two Ski Racers, Veteran Billy Kidd and Young Tyler Palmer, Prove that Winning is a Complex and Difficult Business. An Exploration of Sports Psychology by Richard Meryman Pg… 67 The Games Children Play Pg… 70 Twenty Thousand Feet Under the Sea: A New Wave of Aquatic Gear May Make Possible an Underwater Voyage from Hawaii to California Pg… 4 Departments: The Presidency: Dead Silence on Human Rights. By Hugh Sidey Pg… 8 Departments: Gallery: Alfred Eisenstaedt’s Harborscape Pg… 12 Departments: Comment: Marcia Seligson on Etiquette Pg… 16–17 Departments: Reviews: A Movie Version of D. H. Lawrence’s “Women in Love,” Reviewed by Richard Schickel Pg… 16–17 Departments: Reviews: Neil Simon Explained, by Tom Prideaux Pg… 24A Departments: Letters to the Editors Pg… 24B Departments: Column: An Indigestible Dinner with Professor M. By Barry Farrell : Departments: Guest Privilege: Nutritionist Frederick Stare Tells Why He Favors Food Additives Pg… 75 Departments: Parting Shots

Pg… 22 The Integration Bus Bogs Down: Washington's New Soft Line on School Integration Stirs Up Resentment and Worse. Why the Ideal of Schools Without Discrimination Cannot be Abandoned Now, by Leon Panetta

Pg… 32 Editorial: Unpopular but Crucial Goal

Pg… 34 Nepal's Right Royal Wedding

Pg… 38 The Hemline Hassle: The Latest Word is Long, but Some Designers, Many Women and All Men Hate to See the Mini Go

Pg… 46 West Nears the Top?and Here Comes Wilt: Jerry West has Done Brilliantly, for the Lakers and for Himself, and Now Wilt Chamberlain May Return

Pg… 52B In Praise of Mountain Lions: A Prickly and Prejudiced Defense of a Maligned Species, by Edward Abbey

Pg… 61 The Deceptive Hitchhiker

Pg… 64 A House Made of Spray: Shaped of Burlap, then Coated with Plastic, a Minnesota Country Home is "Light, Airy, and Unpredictable"

Pg… 4 Departments: The Presidency: Equal Time for the Closed Fraternity. By Hugh Sidey

Pg… 8 Departments: Gallery: Jan Weborg's Lithographic Magic

Pg… 12 Departments: Comment: Notes from the Mountaintop Underground, by Stephen Mahoney

Pg… 16 Departments: Review: "Justice," Richard Harris' Assessment of Two Attorneys General, Reviewed by Wilfrid Sheed

Pg… 20A Departments: Lettere to the Editors

Pg… 20B Column: A Piece of Work for Now and Doomsday. By Joan Didion

Pg… 69 Departments: Parting Shots: Russian Humor

Pg… 22 A Church Torn Between Dogma and Dissent: As He Clings to Historic Dogma the Pope's Dilemma Grows. His Challengers Clamor for Change and Some Quit the Church. Why Paul has no Friends, by John Cogley

Pg… 32 The Eclipse No One Saw

Pg… 34 The Kindest Uncut of All: Wags Wig to Head Off a Hair Problem

Pg… 38A Wanted: Ivy League Policemen: Why Don't You Guys Become Cops? By Robert Daley

Pg… 42 Travel as a Package Deal: Group Tours Overseas are Now Such Bargains that You Almost Can't Afford not to Take Them. Through Russian Snows with Group and Guide, by Mary Leatherbee

Pg… 50 What Heroin Did to a Family: A Father Writes About How His Son Became an Addict

Pg… 59 Bug Finders: Arizona Students Turn Up Some Brand–New Species

Pg… 62 How Old is Modern Art?: Constantin Brancusi's Sculpture has Striking Counterparts in Prehistoric and African Works

Pg… 4 Departments: The Presidency: Watch on the Plain of Jars. By Hugh Sidey

Pg… 8 Departments: Gallery: Alen Mac Weeney's Irish Tinkers

Pg… 10 Departments: Comment: Baseball's TV Coverage Could be a lot Better, by Roger Kahn

Pg… 14–17 Departments: Reviews: "Between the Rock and the Hard Place," Paul Jacobs' View of Super–Jew and Super–Arab, Reviewed by Uri Avnery

Pg… 14–17 Departments: Reviews: Albert Goldman on Elvis Aglitter in Las Vegas

Pg… 20A Departments: Letters to the Editors

Pg… 20B Departments: Special Report: An Ugly New Footprint in the Sand. By A.B.C. Whipple

Pg… 68 Departments: Parting Shots: Spray–Flecked Damsels