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| Playmate of the Month: Avis Miller, photographed by Dwight Hooker Avis Is Number One | Jet Bunny Avis Miller is flying high aboard Hugh Hefner’s airborne pleasure dome |
| Dear Playboy | |
| Playboy After Hours | |
| The Playboy Advisor | |
| The Playboy Forum | |
 | Playboy Interview: Elliott Gould | A candid conversation with the kinetic, antiheroic star of “Bob & Carol,” “M.A.S.H,” “Getting Straight,” “Move” and “Little Murders” |
 | Fiction: Dotson Gerber Resurrected | The white man causes everything — even when he is God, even when he is dead, by Hal Bennett, illustrated by Ellen Lanyon |
 | Article: When Punishment Is A Crime | The former attorney general indicts America’s medieval prison system for corrupting and dehumanizing rather than rehabilitating those behind bars, by Ramsey Clark, photographed by Hart Harris |
 | Attire: The Ski Scene | Aspen’s regulars head for the hills sporting the latest garb and gear designed for ski buffs and their snow bunnies, by Robert L. Green, photographed by Robert Huntsinger |
 | Sports: The Top Spots: Playboy Polls The Ski Editors | A compact guide to the experts’ favorite American snow-sport centers |
 | Pictorial: Je T’Aime, Jane | Some over-the-counter views of Jane Birkin, the girl who made that under-the-counter record, photographed by Pompeo Posar |
 | Article: They Became What They Beheld | Media, hair, telephones, violence — unsettling observations on contemporary man and his artifacts by a perceptive anthropologist, by Edmund Carpenter, illustrated by Arthur Paul |
 | Fiction: Night Crossing | It was a delightful but maddening puzzle — which of the beautiful sisters had entered his cabin in the dark, by Elliott Arnold, illustrated by Phill Renaud |
 | Food: A Fine Kettle Of Fish | Warm up to a hearty haul of stews brimming with Neptune’s tastiest treasures, by Thomas Mario, photographed by Alexas Urba |
 | Humor: Playboy’s Party Jokes |
 | Personality: Good Ole Boy | Craggy-faced, down-home country-and-western king Johnny Cash has seen it all and sounds it, by Saul Braun, illustrated by Herb Davidson |
 | Pictorial: Gallo’s Girls | Sculptor Frank Gallo — using contemporary materials in a classic art form — captures the elusive essence of feminine grace |
 | Article: And Now — A Word From Our Sponsor | Hollywood may be crumbling, but Mad Ave’s minimovie biz of TV commercials is better — and funnier — than ever, by Michael Butler, illustrated by Ron Bradford |
 | Article: Sex In Cinema: 1970 | As the old studios — and strictures — sink slowly in the west, literally anything goes on screen, and the outraged forces of reaction are massing for a counterattack, by Arthur Knight and Hollis Alpert |
 | Fiction: Accidents Of A Country Road | That pleasant drive he had taken so many times before was suddenly transformed into an endless nightmare, by Roger Dionne, illustrated by Alan E. Cober |
 | Article: Shoot-Out in Johnston City | … in which — after all the hustlers have traded lies and shots — Wimpy and Fast Eddie are left standing to play some no-forgiveness pool, by Craig Vetter, illustrated by Ed Paschke |
 | Modern Living: Switched-On Superwall | This ultraluxe audio-visual system proffers a movable feast of sight-and-sound stimuli, photographed by Barry O’Rourke |
 | Ribald Classic: The Prince’s Curse | From a 19th Century French feuilleton, retold by Paul Tabori, illustrated by Brad Holland |
 | Article: West Of Eden | On communes from Oregon to New Mexico, urban dropouts are reaching back to mankind’s pastoral past — and into themselves — for new ways to live humanely with nature and one another, by Jules Siegel, photographed by Ron Mesaros |
 | Gifts: Presents Perfect | Yule bounty for office, home and play, photographed by Bill Arsenault |
 | Man At His Leisure: Can-Am Races | Playboy’s artist-on-the-go LeRoy Neiman covers the men, machines — and women — of an international motor race, by LeRoy Neiman |
 | Satire: Word Play | More fun and games with the king’s English in which words become delightfully self-descriptive, by Robert Carola |
 | Politics: Playboy’s Political Preference Chart | A thumbnail election guide, rating this year’s major congressional and gubernatorial candidates according to their views and voting records on the key issues |
 | Personalities: On The Scene (Richard Brautigan, Costa-Gavras, Alvin Duskin) |
 Alberto Vargas |  Alden Erikson |  Buck Brown |  Rowland Wilson |
 Claude Smith |  Dink Siegel |  Doug Sneyd |  Michael Ffolkes |
 Edmond Kiraz |  Eldon Dedini |  Erich Sokol |  Gahan Wilson |
 Francis Wilford Smith |  John Dempsey |  Phil Interlandi |
 Calendar ad (with Playmate Jennifer Liano) |  Playboy Club ad |  Subscription ad (with Playmate Claudia Jennings) |  What Sort of Man Reads Playboy? |
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