Table of Contents

May 1975

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Features

Pray for Sharks

Cuddling up to a thousand pounds of ravenous hunger.

The Greatest Experience of Your Life

Climbing the social ladder, and other exercises at Hill Country summer camps.

Under the Rug

Some embarrassing (and perhaps illegal) aspects of Dolph Briscoe’s campaign.

This Man Loves Car Wrecks More than Anyone Else in the World

For A.O. Pipkin, happiness is a head-on collision he wasn’t in.

Power Politics

How Coastal State Gas pulled the plug on the Texas consumer.

Columns

Behind the Lines

Books

Family Affairs

Coupling takes many forms, as John Updike and Shelby Hearon can tell you.

Dining In

Southern Charms

In Charleston they haven’t forgotten one of the things the Old South was famous for: good cooking.

Records

Sweet and Low

High-brow music doesn’t have to be high priced.

Investments

Private Pleasures

Why going public is not the stock market killing it once was.

Citywise

So Rare

Some good reasons for collecting rare books and some good places to do it.

Film

It’s a Steal

Frank Perry used a lot of hackneyed material in his new film, but Neil Simon just ripped off his own.

Reporter

Reporter

Texas Monthly Reporter

Miscellaneous

Contest

Blood and irony.

Roar of the Crowd

Touts

Yeast is yeast and fest is fest.