Articles: World 42-Freaks 0 / Garry Wills -- Stirling Moss: a nodding acquaintance with death / Ken W. Purdy -- Costa Nostra-that's Italian for "Our headache" / Murray Kempton -- Thanksgiving in Florence / John Clellon Holmes -- The paramilitary right / Eric Norden -- The killing of the Everglades / Richard Rhodes -- New York: a town without foreplay / Bruce Jay Friedman -- Good-bye to the blind slash dead kid's hooch / Arthur Hadley -- Centre court / John McPhee -- The crisis in man's destiny / Sir Julian Huxley -- The attack on the right to privacy / William O. Douglas -- A million and one nights in Soviet Russia / William F. Buckley, Jr. -- The Harold Robbins Co. / John Skow -- Fiction: Once, in Aleppo / Irwin Shaw -- The lecture / Isaac Bachevis Singer -- The dashing fellow / Vladimir Nabokov -- The old system / Saul Bellow -- I am dying, Egypt, dying / John Updike -- Transit on earth / Arthur C. Clarke -- Saul bird says: relate! communicate! liberate! / Joyce Carol Oates -- The escalator / Günter Grass -- The golden Christmas ducat / Frederic Morton -- In a season of calm weather / Ray Bradbury -- The yellow room / John Cheever -- Welcome to the monkey house / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- The silver crown / Bernard Malamud -- Falling rocks, narrowing road, cul-de-sac, stop / Sean O'Faolain -- Humor and Satire: In defense of indolence / Robert Morley -- The giant chicken-eating frog will soon be extinct unless we take action now! / Morton Stulifer -- Snow white? / WoodyAllen -- Cordle to onion to carrot / Robert Sheckley -- Advantage, God / Art Buchwald -- My first orgy / Dan Greenburg -- George Washington's expense account / Marvin Kitman -- Memoirs: The crazy one / Norman Mailer -- Wanda Hickey's night of golden memories / Jean Shepherd -- The old neighborhood / Henry Miller -- Chaplin / Charles Beaumont -- Playboy interviews: Germaine Greer -- Stanley Kubrick