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April 1975

Table of Contents

Features

Pray now, fly later.

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

A grain of truth about the high cost of food.

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

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

Columns

Sports

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

Film

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

Art

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

Books

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

Investments

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

Dining Out

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

Performance

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.

Cityview

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

Records

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

Reporter

Miscellany

Silver threads and golden needles.

Getting your words’ worth.

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