 | Playmate of the Month: Jill Taylor, photographed by Bill Figge and Ed DeLong Sunny Girl | Not one to take her cue from the past or to worry about the future, blithe-spirited Jill Taylor digs living in the now |
| Dear Playboy | |
| Playboy After Hours | |
| The Playboy Advisor | |
| The Playboy Forum | |
 | Playboy Interview: Raquel Welch | A candid conversation with Hollywood’s hottest sex symbol — and the improbable star of “Myra Breckenridge” |
 | Fiction: Thomas In Elysium | There’s no telling what trouble you might get into if you land in a sleepy little whistle stop that turns out to have more girls on the loose than one stranger can handle, by Irwin Shaw, illustrated by Charles Schorre |
 | Modern Living: Classic Comebacks | A contemporary variation on a vintage Bentley theme and a faithfully reproduced boattailed Auburn offer then individuality of traditional elegance in an assembly-line age, photographed by J. Barry O’Rourke |
 | Fiction: A Recluse And His Guest | In coming unbidden to his house, she had brought with her the one thing he feared most, by Tennessee Williams, illustrated by Charles Bragg |
 | Humor: The Most Unforgettable Swordsman I Ever Met | His acne was rampant and his uniform a mess, but this swinger had a secret ploy that made the girls surrender, by Art Buchwald, illustrated by Bill Bryan |
 | Article: The Americanization Of Vietnam | A Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent’s eyewitness report on the disastrous side effects of our undeclared war, by David Halberstam, illustrated by Ed Paschke |
 | Modern Living: Roman Revel | Hail the new year MCMLXX by turning your pad into a villa replete with provender, potables, costumes and decor fit for a caesar, photographed by Don Ornitz |
 | Opinion: For Christ’s Sake | Renouncing the image of Jesus as a melancholy ascetic, a progressive theologian calls out for his resurrection as a joyous revolutionary, by Parvey Cox, illustrated by Fred Berger |
 | Attire: European Fashion Dateline | Playboy’s fashion director scouts Paris, St.-Tropez, London and Rome to report on new trends from the old world, by Robert L. Green, photographed by Marvin Koner |
 | Humor: That Was The Year That Was | Tongue-in-cheek remembrances of sundry news makers who — in word or deed — made the headlines in ’69, by Judith Wax, illustrated by Bill Utterback |
 | Bring Us Together | Four concerned Americans propose presidential initiatives to heal the polar divisions between young and old, rich and poor, left and right, white and nonwhite |
 | Article: Reconciling The Generations, by Sen. George McGovern |
 | Article: Sharing The Wealth, by Cesar Chavez |
 | Article: Uniting The Races, by Julian Bond |
 | Article: Forging A Left-Right Coalition, by Tom Wicker |
 | Satire: The Good, The Bad And The Garlic, by Harvey Kurtzman; photographed by Mario Casilli |
 | Humor: Charmed By A Snake | Being the stirring saga of a sometimes-requited love affair with a Cobra, by Mort Sahl, illustrated by Hy Roth |
 | Fiction: Crook’s Tour | Shortly after the Orient Express deposited us in Istanbul, the Turkish police came to call — causing a sudden change in plans, by Graham Greene |
 | Humor: Playboy’s Party Jokes |
 | Modern Living: Playboy Plans A Duplex Penthouse | A coolly elegant urban haven that combines the intimate privacy of a Roman atrium with architectonic spaciousness, illustrated by Robert Bray |
 | Article: Points Of Rebellion | Residual problems of disastrous proportions plague the nation on the threshold of a new decade; it is precisely those who now feel most frustrated who can summon up the cleansing winds of change, by Justice William O. Douglas, illustrated by Bill Mauldin |
 | Pictorial: “Beauty Trap” Beauty | Actress, model and now author, Jeanne Rejaunier has concocted a sexpourri of life among the mannequins that’s spiked with all the ingredients of a best seller, photographed by Don Ornitz |
 | Opinion: The Past As Future: A Nonlinear Probe | The torrent of mind-blowing images and events that was the Sixties is visualized by an artist in his thirties; the life-style explosion of the generation imprinted in that decade is projected for the Seventies and beyond by a writer in his twenties, by Jacob Brackman, illustrated by Harry Bouras |
 | Fiction: The Mourner | He told the rabbi to take a good look at the corpse so he’d know who he was talking about, by Bruce Jay Friedman, illustrated by Paul Giovanopoulos |
 | Humor: Zinsmeister And The Eighter From Decatur | The motley crew of Company K gets a weekend pass to town, where it tastes the forbidden fruits of passion, the heady pleasures of the gaming arena and the bitter dregs of human chicanery, by Jean Shepherd, illustrated by Gordon Kibbee |
 | Pictorial: Playboy’s Playmate Review | A portfolio of the past delightful dozen (Leslie Bianchini, Lorrie Menconi, Kathy MacDonald, Lorna Hopper, Sally Sheffield, Helena Antonaccio, Nancy McNeil, Debbie Hooper, Shay Knuth, Jean Bell, Claudia Jennings, Gloria Root) |
 | Humor: Marco Roly-Poly Meets The Mysterious East | In which our intrepid explorer quenches his thirst for adventure on a one-man tour de farce of Mother Russia and the inscrutable orient, by Robert Morley, illustrated by Paul Williams |
 | Article: Our Besieged Bill Of Rights | The basic tenets of individual freedom are under attack by those who would sacrifice these freedoms at the alter of law and order, by Arthur J. Goldberg |
 | Nostalgia: Vargas Revisited | Encoring a curvaceous gallery of favorites created by Playboy’s unsurpassed portrayer of quip-equipped lovelies, by Alberto Vargas |
 | Man At His Leisure: Morocco | LeRoy Neiman, Playboy’s peripatetic artist, limns a vibrant North African odyssey, by LeRoy Neiman |
 | Ribald Classic: The Girls And The Shark | From “Tales in a Tahitian Village”, retold by Bob Lunch, illustrated by Brad Holland |
 | Gifts: The Eleventh-Hour Santa | Uptight because yule’s looming large? Worry not … |
 | Playboy’s Annual Writing Awards | Announcing the thousand-dollar-prize-winning authors and their contributions, judged by our editors to be the past year’s most outstanding |
 | Humor: Alphabêtes Noires | A biting and bizarre bestiary to put in your Funk and Wagnalls, by J.B. Handelsman |
 | Personalities: On The Scene (Michael Crichton, Jackie Stewart, David Steinberg) |
 | Satire: Little Annie Fanny, by Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder |
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