Exclusive MORE MAGAZINES detailed content description, below! * NEWSWEEK Vintage News-week magazine, with all the news, features, photographs and vintage ADS -- Exclusive MORE MAGAZINES detailed content description, below! ISSUE DATE: December 19, 1977; Volume XC, No. 25 IN THIS ISSUE:- [Detailed contents description written EXCLUSIVELY for this listing by MORE MAGAZINES! Use 'Control F' to search this page.] * This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 COVER: DIET CRAZES. TOP OF THE WEEK: COVER: DIET CRAZES: There's a twinge of anxiety with every forkful when America sits down to dinner these days: at least 70 million citizens are overweight, and most of the rest are worried about diet J problems ranging from high blood pressure to cancer. Exploiting these fears, promoters of fad diets flood the best-seller lists and peddle nostrums ranging from bran cereal to liquid protein. Medicine editor Matt Clark examines the latest nutritional crazes and finds that some are sensible, some are downright dangerous and the best of them call for an exasperating amount of self-discipline. (Cover photo by Neil Slavin.). DISCO KING: Not since Sylvester Stallone has a young actor leaped so dramatically to movie stardom as JOHN TRAVOLTA. A teen idol as Vinnie Barbarino in TV's "Welcome Back, Kotter," Travolta is about to hit the screen as a flashy disco dancer in "Saturday Night Fever," a movie about the frustrations of the disco life in a lower-middle-class section of Brooklyn. David Ansen appraises the movie and Travolta's electrifying performance. Off-screen, Maureen Orth finds the 23-year-old actor is just as unspoiled and serious-minded as the boy next door. KID STUFF: With Christmas looming, there's an unseasonable shortage of some of the most popular toys (page 58). But the usual deluge of juvenile books has hit the stalls, and Senior Editor Charles Michener turns up some gems in the literary kiddie litter (page 81). SADAT'S TALKS: Egypt and Israel meet in Cairo this week for a conference that could sharply alter the old Arab-Israeli blood feud. For Anwar Sadat, said an Egyptian diplomat on the eve of the talks, "It's peace or' nothing. BOKASSA I: Africa had a brand new Emperor last week--Bokassa I of the Central African Empire (left). Newsweek's Loren Jenkins flew to Bangui, capital of the new empire, for the coronation and found it a rollicking affair. Although his country is dirt-poor, Bokassa, a former soldier in the French Army, spent $25 million to imitate the coronation of his idol, Napoleon. Kings, presidents and the Pope spurned his invitations. But Bokassa donned a 30-foot train of red velvet trimmed with gold and ermine. Then he put a $2.5 million, gemencrusted crown on his own head and the party was on. INDEX: NATIONAL AFFAIRS: The Cairo conference. Congress inches ahead. Barbara Jordan calls it quits. Democrats in distress. Oswald and JFK: the FBI's mass of evidence. Prosecutions: the Attorney General's dilemma. Releasing Americans from Mexican jails. California's Hillside Strangler. INTERNATIONAL: Trade concessions by Japan--sort of. The coronation of Emperor Bokassa I. Portugal: after Soares, Soares?. The root of the problem in Bermuda. Dirty tricks against a South African editor. BUSINESS: A tax cut in the making. Farming: the tractor rebellion. Bailing out the steel industry. Chrysler's new-look mini cars. The great Christmas toy shortage. MEDICINE: Diet crazes (the cover); The protein fad. EDUCATION: A woman president for Chicago. RELIGION: Father Raymond Brown's "Birth of the Messiah". SCIENCE: Uncovering astronomical feats of the ancients. NEWS MEDIA: A Canadian publisher's new Philadelphia paper; The struggle to save London's Observer. LIFE/STYLE: For black Americans, a merry Kwanza. THE COLUMNISTS: My Turn: Joseph Nocera. Milton Friedman. Meg Greenfield. THE ARTS: MOVIES: Disco king John Travolta. "Saturday Night Fever": dancing up a storm Newsweek. BOOKS: Christmas plums for children ... and for teen-agers. THEATER: Neil Simon's warmly funny "Chapter Two". Four plays by new writers. ART: Louise Nevelson's witchery with wood. * NOTE: OUR content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date. This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Standard sized magazine, Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in VERY GOOD condition. (See photo) A great snapshot of the time, and a terrific Birthday present or Anniversary gift! Careful packaging, Fast shipping, ALL GUARANTEED --