Life Magazine, October 1, 1979 - Dolly Parton

For Music's top stars, home is a fancy bus, including Conway Twitty, Loretta Lynn, group Cameo, Tammy Wynette, Don Williams, Oak Ridge Boys. Two page color "Birds and Flowers of the Orient" decorative plates by Naoka Nobata. Cool full page color Casio FX-80 calculator ad with guy who fits the calculator. The case of the clumsy spies, the Falcon and the Snowman. Republicans rush for the presidency. The pick of the new crop of campus athletes - great color photos of Ralph Sampson (baseball), a very young John Elway (football), Tim Worstell (lacrosse), Jill Sterkel (swimmer), Jeff Kerber (wrestling), Jackie Campbell (hockey), Anne Donovan (basketball), Cheryl Johnston (volleyball). Vietnam portraits - the pain of survival, James Farley, Donna Hamilton, Harrison Bell, Tom Cole (see original story on Bell and Cole in LIFE February 11, 1966), Jeremiah Purdie, Vernon Wike, Cruz Acuna. Sculptor Dale Eldred's solar refractions in Kansas City. The fine art of Japanese cuisine invades the US in a delicate tide. Portrait - Alan Alda, includes a great full page candid photo of him laughing. A visit to John Connally's ranch in Floresville, Texas. A poisoned town, dioxin from Vertac factory in Jacksonville, Arkansas, includes photos of James Mayhair and wife Diane Mayhair, and more. Robert Vavra's photos of horse body language. Robert Redford as the Electric Horseman.