
April 1974
Table of Contents
Features
Bob and George Go to Washington or The Post-Watergate ScrambleThe GOP and Democratic chairmen are both from Texas. Right there the similarity ends, or begins, no, ends. Semi-TuftForget 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 StreetDid 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 GrewAll roads have to go somewhere; but it could be that roads in Texas are going the wrong way. |
Columns
Children's CornerAnd Father Makes ThreeDaddies can’t have babies, but they can sure help their wives. This is a guide to where and how. SportsAt Play in the Fields of the LordBaseball, an old and idiosyncratic game, loses and old and idiosyncratic field. NutritionMethod Against MadnessWhat you eat affects the way you think; ad what you think affects the way you eat. |
FilmComic Cowboys and Other HeroesCops, sci-fi, and westerns get served up as leftovers, and only one still tastes good. Meanwhile, Robert Altman has another dazzling film. MusicHe's About a MoverDoug Sahm's music is his own, but what luck that he plays it for everybody. InvestmentsCome Back, Little TraderSenator Bentsen is proposing legislation to end the two-tiered market. It might work; then again the market might take care of itself. |
Reporter
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