August 1975

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Features

The Hottest Place in the Whole U.S.A.

How the Texas heat can sap your energy, dull your intelligence, send you to an early grave, and make you sweat.

Leroy’s Revenge

Ringside as two dogs—father and son—fight to the death.

The Last Aggie Joke

Behold the miracles at College Station!

Good News

Cancer treatments, windshield wipers that don’t squeak, and other major breakthroughs on the frontiers of science.

Forgotten Places

What Texas one was, so these wilderness areas still remain.

Being Single: A True-life Adventure

The loneliness of the long distance bachelor.

Columns

Behind the Lines

Politics

You Be the Judge

The battles in John Connally’s trial were fought before the jury, but the war may have been won offstage.

Citywise

Menace in the Grass

What you can’t see can hurt you.

Records

High Mass

A famous conductor tries again with a recording of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, and this time we think he’s got it right.

Dining Out

The Old Menu and the Sea

Fresh fish, and other rarities at seafood restaurants.

Investments

Stormy Weather

Why should Texans worry about New York going broke?

Film

Say It with Music

Nashville, The Fortune, and Jaws: the perils and rewards of making it big.

Books

Tortuga’s Complaint

Peter Matthiessen writes of men pursuing a dying profession and Philip Roth pursues his critics.

Reporter

Reporter

Texas Monthly Reporter

Miscellaneous

Contest

A title match.

Roar of the Crowd

Touts

Getting down to brass facts.

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