May 1978

May 1978

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Features

Cabin Fever / Design

Years ago, kids used to play pioneer with Lincoln Logs. Today grown-ups are playing pioneer—only with real log cabins.

by Terry G. Jordan

Expensive People

At the top, a good family helps, clothes help, manners help, the right friends help, but nothing helps like money.

by A. J. Love

I Was a Bum

Hey, buddy, can you spare a dime?

by Dick J. Reavis

Danger: Men Working

In a dirty little factory, workers made an insecticide that poisoned them and then almost got us all.

by Tom Curtis

Little Joe

Amid blaring trumpets, raised fists, bottles of beer, and a cheering mob stands the king of Saturday night.

by Joe Nick Patoski

Columns

Dealing

High Risk Policy

An insurance company imbroglio—full of high rollers, big deals and pitched battles—ended with a bang, and a few whimpers.

Robert Barnstone

Behind the Lines

Why we don’t endorse candidates.

by William Broyles

Cityview

It’s Delightful, It’s Delovely, It’s Decatur

If you’re looking for the best place to live in Texas, think small.

by Michael Hilton

Sports

Pennant Wise, Dollar Foolish

The Texas Rangers are spending their way to an American League pennant—or bankruptcy.

by Gary Cartwright

Business

Unfriendly Skies

Braniff is hopping the Atlantic to London; Pan Am is just hopping mad.

by John Bloom

Reporter

Texas Monthly Reporter

Robert Howard’s heroic fantasies; Preston Smith’s political fantasies; Fort Worth still outraged by nude relic; Mayans’ ancient glyphs decoded.

by John Bloom

Review

Texas Monthly Review

Andy Warhol soups up the superstars; dancers do the towns; Beverly Sills still casts a spell; ladybug found with strange bedfellows; and folk music isn’t dead, it’s just in Houston.