1975 – Page 2 of 5

In Search of the Modern Cowboy

In today‘s tame, tame West, the cowboy seldom rides a horse and never carries a gun, but the cattle business is bigger than ever.

Eat Your Heart Out

The perfect European restaurant and some that come close.

Contest

Gridirony.

Book Joints

The irresistible lure of used paperbacks.

Of Mouse and Men

Advocates of new public art symbols for Houston have uncovered a rat.

Behind the Lines

A Sporting Chance

Can college athletics survive? Can short stories?

Mexico on Five Words a Day

The best places to study Spanish in Mexico.

Touts

To sleep, perchance to scheme.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Willie

If you haven’t met the Red Headed Stranger, maybe you should.

The Music Man

If James Dick has his way, the notes struck at Round Top will echo around the world.

All Systems Stop

It used to be pretty hard to make money on the stock market but at least there were some things you could count on.

Our Favorite Restaurant

From the Mexico Package (September 1975).

Our Favorite Hotel

From the Mexico Package (September 1975).

From Those Wonderful Folks Who Brought You Acapulco and Cancún . . .

Presenting Mexico’s newest built-from-scratch beach resort.

The Heartbreak of Turista

Good News for Christian Scientists; bad news for everybody else.

Viva La Tequila!

The best ways to drink Mexico’­s best liquor.

The Truth about Tequila

From machismo to counterculture in one decade.

Mexico: An Introduction

Four hundred and fifty years ago Texas was claimed for Spain by an adventurer who was washed ashore, naked and starving, on the beach at Galveston. Cabeza de Vaca was promptly made a slave by the vile, cannibalistic, and otherwise inhospitable Karankawa Indians. For the next 300 years (more than

The Alamo? Sure. Two Blocks, Turn Right, and It’s Right Across From the Five and Ten.

You remember, don’t you? That'­s the place John Wayne died.

Welcome To Boys Town

From the Mexico Package (September 1975).

Wetback

What makes them swim the Rio Grande?

Zapata’s Children

Will the Mexican Revolution ever end?

Mexico City Is the Most Uninhabitable City in the World.

From the Mexico Package (September 1975).

Mexico City Is the Most Exciting City in the Western Hemisphere.

From the Mexico Package (September 1975).

Democracy, Mexican Style

All political parties are equal, but one is more equal than all the rest put together.

The First Mexicans

In twentieth-century Mexico, ancient Indian rituals linger.

Stop The Press!

Was the death of the Fort Worth Press murder or euthanasia?

The Wok Ethic

If you’ve ever wondered why your Chinese friend says “chop-chop,” look to the kitchen.

Contest

Life and lively.

Tube or Not Tube?

What is happening to your children, sitting in front of the TV?

Behind the Lines

Crooked Shooters

Does crime pay?

Leroy’s Revenge

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

Touts

Getting down to brass facts.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

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.

You Be the Judge

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

Stormy Weather

Why should Texans worry about New York going broke?

Say It with Music

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

Being Single: A True-Life Adventure

The loneliness of the long distance bachelor.

Forgotten Places

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

Good News

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

The Last Aggie Joke

Behold the miracles at College Station!

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.

The Old Menu and the Sea

Fresh fish, and other rarities at seafood restaurants.

Contest

A title match.