ON THE COVER: cover photography by Gary Blockley
May 1975
Table of Contents
Features
Pray for SharksCuddling up to a thousand pounds of ravenous hunger. The Greatest Experience of Your LifeClimbing the social ladder, and other exercises at Hill Country summer camps. Under the RugSome embarrassing (and perhaps illegal) aspects of Dolph Briscoe’s campaign. |
This Man Loves Car Wrecks More than Anyone Else in the WorldFor A.O. Pipkin, happiness is a head-on collision he wasn’t in. Power PoliticsHow Coastal State Gas pulled the plug on the Texas consumer. |
Columns
Behind the LinesBooksFamily AffairsCoupling takes many forms, as John Updike and Shelby Hearon can tell you. Dining InSouthern CharmsIn Charleston they haven’t forgotten one of the things the Old South was famous for: good cooking. RecordsSweet and LowHigh-brow music doesn’t have to be high priced. |
InvestmentsPrivate PleasuresWhy going public is not the stock market killing it once was. CitywiseSo RareSome good reasons for collecting rare books and some good places to do it. FilmIt’s a StealFrank Perry used a lot of hackneyed material in his new film, but Neil Simon just ripped off his own. |
Reporter
ReporterTexas Monthly Reporter |
Miscellany
ContestBlood and irony. Roar of the Crowd |
ToutsYeast is yeast and fest is fest. |
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