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April 1974

Table of Contents

Features

The GOP and Democratic chairmen are both from Texas. Right there the similarity ends, or begins, no, ends.

Forget your dallas cowboys and your houston astros. Texas’ real champions count birds once a year at freeport. They’re not bird watchers, they’re birders. And therein lies a tail.

Did the clean-cut knight get trapped by the Wall Street dragon? And did he, after all, have himself to blame?

All roads have to go somewhere; but it could be that roads in Texas are going the wrong way.

Columns

Politics

Last election’s star campaigner may be taking thewrong road back.

Sports

Baseball, an old and idiosyncratic game, loses and old and idiosyncratic field.

Film

Cops, sci-fi, and westerns get served up as leftovers, and only one still tastes good. Meanwhile, Robert Altman has another dazzling film.

Music

Doug Sahm's music is his own, but what luck that he plays it for everybody.

Investments

Senator Bentsen is proposing legislation to end the two-tiered market. It might work; then again the market might take care of itself.

Dining Out

We visit restaurants in Houston where lunches are the specialty.

Children's Corner

Daddies can’t have babies, but they can sure help their wives. This is a guide to where and how.

Nutrition

What you eat affects the way you think; ad what you think affects the way you eat.

Reporter

Miscellany

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