April 1975

Table of Contents

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Features

The Most Dangerous Airports in Texas

Pray now, fly later.

Zoo Story

A guide to Texas zoos: living like an animal is better than itís ever been.

What Your Mother Never Told You About Rice

A grain of truth about the high cost of food.

Greetings From the Eighth Wonder of the World

A candid celebration of ten years of the Astrodome and Astrothink.

Carousel

Taking a nostalgic turn around some old merry-go-rounds.

Columns

Behind the Lines

Performance

This‘ll Be the Day

In Lubbock Buddy Holly was just a skinny kid with glasses, but to rock-and-roll fans he was—and is—a whole lot more.

Sports

On the Waterfront

Canoeists battle more than white water when they run the Guadalupe.

Cityview

The Way We Weren’t

Washington-on-the-Brazos is a little run-down for a Texas shrine; but then, it was run-down in 1836 too.

Investments

Sold Arabian

The Alamo was only the first step in the Arabs’ attempted takeover of what’s sacred to us Texans. The Customer’s Man

Books

Waltz Across Texas, March Into Zion

Two books on why you can’t go home again.

Art

Three for the Show

Fort Worth’s art museums are a bigger attraction than the stockyards and, what’s more, most art doesn’t smell.

Dining Out

Road Hogs

Found at last! Highway cuisine to save you from Stuckey’s.

Records

Future Rock

The times, they are a’ changing. Fine, but how?

Film

Cleaning Up the Act

Both Warren Beatty and Ellen Burstyn are going to wash that malaise right out of their hair.

Reporter

Miscellaneous

Contest

Getting your words’ worth.

Roar of the Crowd

Touts

Silver threads and golden needles.