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BECOME YOUR CHILDREN'S MENTOR  Bill Moyers believes its essential for parents to become mentors to their children, making them feel important. Beverly Sills talks about introducing kids  to opera. Jack Nicklaus describes the advantages of teaching your sons and daughters to play golf and the best starting ages.. Mickey Mantle pays homage to his dad for teaching him to be a switch hitter.

THE ART OF CONVERSATION   Many people feel uncomfortable making small talk and meeting new people. But Dick Cavett has some ways of breaking the ice with style. Mortimer Adler stresses the importance of listening before you talk..

ON WRITING WELL    Let Robert Ludlum, author of the world's great thrillers, and Frances Mayes, author of the all-time New York Times Best Seller - Under the Tuscan Sun,  introduce you to the pleasures of writing - and  the skill of getting people to read what you write.

GETTING A NEW JOB IN 30 DAYS  Hal Gieseking will show you how to do it when you realize that looking for work is a full time job.

LEARNING TO LEAD   General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower found inspiring ways to lead armies and a country. You'll find ways to lead employees, clubs, churches to the most beneficial results for all.

HOW TO BE MORE CREATIVE   Escape from conventional thinking. Don't just think "out of the box." Invent a brand new box. Try on some ideas from Bill Moyers and Dr. Edward de Bono.

BECOMING YOUR "PERSONAL BEST"  Many people go through life operating on only four cylinders or just coasting downhill. Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr. (In Search of Excellence) and Beverly Sills offer ways of getting more out of life by setting higher goals for yourself.

COPING WITH CHANGE  What do you do if your life suddenly turns upside down - through divorce, loss of income, health problems. Dr. Leon Martell (Mastering Change) tells how to adjust and John Naisbitt (Megatrends) provides a periscope-look of what may lie ahead.