August 1975 Cover

ON THE COVER: Cover Illustration by Justin Carroll

August 1975

Table of Contents

Features

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

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

Behold the miracles at College Station!

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

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

The loneliness of the long distance bachelor.

Columns

Politics

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

Citywise

What you can’t see can hurt you.

Records

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

Fresh fish, and other rarities at seafood restaurants.

Investments

Why should Texans worry about New York going broke?

Film

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

Books

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

Reporter

Reporter

Miscellany

A title match.

Getting down to brass facts.

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