April 1974

Table of Contents

Features

Bob and George Go to Washington or The Post-Watergate Scramble

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

Semi-Tuft

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.

Ambush on Wall Street

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

The Highway Establishment and How it Grew and Grew and Grew

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

Columns

Politics

What Makes Sissy Run?

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

Children's Corner

And Father Makes Three

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

Sports

At Play in the Fields of the Lord

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

Nutrition

Method Against Madness

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

Film

Comic Cowboys and Other Heroes

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

Dining Out

Out to Lunch

We visit restaurants in Houston where lunches are the specialty.

Music

He's About a Mover

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

Investments

Come Back, Little Trader

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

Reporter

Miscellaneous