1976 – Page 2 of 5

Me and My Truck

When is a truck more than a truck?

State Fair

The roar of the grease, the smell of the corny dog.

Fly Me! I’m Delicious!

Sure you are. And we’re the Knights of the Round Table.

Contest

Issues and Questions.

About Face

How to keep your complexion from getting skinned alive.

The Boomsday Book

Why Houston should read it and weep.

Behind the Lines

Pall in the Family

Domestic bliss has seen better days than it sees in Shelby Hearon’s new novel.

Touts

Luster’s last stand.

Roar of the Crowd

Texas Monthly Reporter

Shoot the Piano Players

Glenn Gould and Peter Serkin have always beenn far-out, but new recordings suggest a certain mellowing.

Body Politics

Why you shouldn’t lose any sleep over your congressman’s nocturnal habits.

Will’s Testament

Western swing will never die, and Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys will never retire.

Inside Jobs

Your doctor’s got some new ways of getting under your skin.

Easy Outing

Bingo Long is a baseball movie even a non-fan can love.

That Certain Look

From alpha to omega, you can’t tell the sorority girls apart without a scorecard.

Sisterhood is Powerful

Especially for sorority sisters.

All’s Fair in War

. . .but back home? Never.

All’s Fair in Love

Can Texas Democrats find happiness? In New York, maybe—

Texas on My Feet

If the boot fits, wear it.

Making the Best of It

A great photographer looks at plain people caught in the hard times of another Texas.

Busting Out of Mexico

Two self-styled Texas soldiers of fortune engineered one of the more bizarre jailbreaks in history. Here’s how it happened.

Mean Greens

How do you know when an artichoke has come of age?

Contest

Getting a head.

Only the Loanly

There are five private banks left in Texas. Why?

Behind the Lines

Lend Me Your Era

Why the best years of our lives weren’t.

Hostel Territory

Even in the barren wilderness of West Texas there are a few places where you can feel at home on the range.

Touts

Some recommendations on what to do, see, and buy this month.

Roar of the Crowd

Bringing Them All Back HomeAs one with more than a casual interest in the refugee program in Southeast Texas,I read “The Newest Americans” by Gene Lyons [TM, June 1976] with a great deal of anticipation. Mr. Lyons seems to have a particular empathy with the Vietnamese

Texas Monthly Reporter

PEOPLEThe red-hot rumor, blazing from mouth to mouth in Dallas recently, had longtime radio programming genius Gordon McLendon raising $2 million for a group of Dallas investors to buy WRR-AM, the city-owned, all-news station that’s up for sale. Not so, says son Bart McLendon, manager of McLendonowned KNUZ-FM in Dallas.

Uncommon Market

“Buy now, play later,” says the Dallas Theater Center.

A Midsummer’s Nightmare

If you thought this summer’s film lineup looked promising, pinch yourself. "The Big Bus" and "Logan's Run," are anything but a reviewer's dream.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

Did you know there’s more difference between Fudgsicles and Popsicles than the taste? The taxman does.

In Search of the Better Mousetrap

American ingenuity has produced the telephone, the airplane, and now the breast pillow.

Will Success Spoil Leonel Castillo?

This politician controls the purse strings of the richest city in Texas. And he’s ready for bigger things.

Bringing It All Back Home

Nashville inspired Willie Nelson—to leave.

The Passions of the Common Man

That’s what country music is, and that’s why it plays in Peoria.

An Affair for Gentlemen

A tale of white sails, blue water, and how they turn refined men into barbarians.

The Party’s Over

The Lord giveth the beach and the developer taketh away.

Your Serve

Tipping is a game of give and take. If all goes well, both waiter and diner do a lot of both.

Contest

Poetry in motion.

Barrel of Fun

Introducing the perfect pickle.

Shoot Yourself

Your next home movies may not win any Academy Awards, but at least they don’t have to be rated ZZZZzzzz.

Let’s Make a Deal

When Dad Joiner signed away all his oil leases to H.L. Hunt, all the cards weren’t on the table. Some were still underground.

Behind the Lines

Some days it seems like the complaints about restaurant reviews will never stop: “My family and I drove all the way from * * * on the strength of your good ole Anonymous and, like him, we received no special services—all to the tune of $35.15 for four of us.

Sourcery and Whichcraft

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's latest book "The Final Days" is just too much hocus-pocus.

Making Tracks

The great Canadian railway bizarre.

Making Tracks

The great Canadian railway bizarre.