April 1976
April 1976
Table of Contents
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Features
The Most Powerful TexansYou can’t tell the players without a scorecard. The Horseman and His ApocalypsePeople bring their gangly quarter horse colts to Bubba Werner to transform into winners. Now and again, he does. The Last Kid on the BlockElmer Wayne Henley is neither safe nor sorry. |
StationeryThe proof of your imagination is in the paper. The Highland Park WomanSplendor in the suburbs. Did You Hear The One About The Farmer’s Daughter?A strip-mining company made her an offer she couldn’t refuse. |
Columns
Behind the LinesPoliticsSo Close, So FarThe natural gas deregulation bill almost made it through the labyrinth of Congress, but not exactly in the way they tell it in the civics books. Dining InSpecialties of the HouseSome cheap but gourmet dishes you can make at home on the range. BooksFires and BrimstoneSpiritual desolation in Crawford’s The Backslider; spiritual warfare in Naipaul’s Guerrillas. |
InvestmentsGassing GameSomething you can’t see, hear, smell, taste, or touch could turn you a tidy profit—if you play your cards right. FilmMeaner StreetsWho is the Taxi Driver and why is he doing those terrible things? HealthThe Wages of FunThe worst things in life are free; venereal disease, for instance. LifestyleRole CallIn which our author discovers that paternity suits him. |
Reporter
ReporterTexas Monthly Reporter |
Miscellaneous
ContestAccidentally on purpose. |
Roar of the CrowdToutsWater, water, everywhere. |
Chisum Trail (Sat Jul 5 at 12:13 PM)
Oh Big Brother, Where Art Thou (Fri Jul 4 at 9:30 AM)
Clay Felker (Tue Jul 1 at 11:15 AM)
Madam, I'm Adam (Sun Jun 22 at 4:34 PM)
Eating Vancouver (Mon Jun 30 at 10:04 PM)
