Pet of the Month
Susan Ryder (cover and inside) photographed by Bob Guccione.

Interview
Studs Terkel by Abe Peck.

Articles
La Costa — The Hundred-Million-Dollar Resort with Criminal Clientele” by Lowell Bergman and Jeff Gerth.

“”Buying the United States”” by Fred Ferretti.

“”America has become a bargain basement for the Japanese and the Arabs — the last of the big-time spenders.

“”The Happy Hustler”” by Grant Tracy Saxon.

An uninhibited autobiography of a male prostitute.

Models

Brigit Sandstrom photographed by Oscar Abolafia

Photos by Earl Miller and Stan Malinowski.