Playboy 1972 08 Aug

Playmate of the Month 
Linda Summers photographed by Bill Figge and Ed DeLong.

Interview 
Sam Peckinpah by William Murray.

Personality 
"Ode to a Bottomless Bathtub: Ernie Kovacs" by Terry Galanoy.

Features 
"B.F. Skinner: God is a Variable Interval" by Donn Pearce 
"In the Community of Girls and the Commerce of Culture" by Herbert Gold 
"Playboy's Pro Football Preview" by Anson Mount 
"Shut Up and Show the Movies!" by Larry Levinger 
"Sex and Sin in Sheboygan" by Richard Rhodes 
"Swindling & Knavery, Inc." by U.S. Senator Philip A. Hart.

Boxcar Beartha (film) 
Barbara Hershey and David Carradine photographed by Ron Thal.

The Girls of Munich 
Anulka Dziubinska, Marlene Appelt, Alberta Brandenstein, Mia Schroeter, Barbara Karger, Christa Linder, Hildegard Kuhlbach, Hansi Lohmann, Sigi Patt-Von-Babo, Monica Fleischer, Marlene Wiese, Iris Gras, Helga Blaha, Margie Ferstl, Eva Garden, Heidi Ulmer-Hartberger, Karin Muller, Christiane Rucker, Kiki Golz, Regina Baar, Eva Maria Bohnchin, Evelyn Wilczek, Monique Ofner, Nicola Schlubach, Gisela Lange, Hella Rutz and Birgit Zamulo photographed by Pompeo Posar and Jan Parik.

Carol Vitale (cover) photographed by Alexas Urba.