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October 1978

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Features

Show us the hardest working man in Texas and we’ll show you a roughneck.

The smell of sulfur in a dance hall, the strains of violin music at midnight, a puddle of water in a taxicab—these are the signs Texas ghosts leave behind. Now don’t say we didn’t warn you.

The newest style of manly hatwear.

Oveta Culp Hobby has gone from a country town to a position of power and wealth. What she hasn’t done will also be her legacy.

A few years ago guards ran the Rusk State Hospital for the criminally insane. Now sociopathic criminals rule the wards.

Some kids may fail at school and it’s not their fault.

Columns

The war isn’t over.

Dining In

With feasts from the garden.

A Provençal vegetable soup enriched with a heady pesto.

Lifestyle

All his life, the son learned from the father, but the most important lesson came at the end.

Citywise

All you need to heat your home is a stove, firewood, and a match.

Politics

For the Republicans this fall, it may be a trip to oblivion.

Country Notes

Common uses of the most uncommon form of tobacco.

Film

“Make new friends, keep the old.” It’s not as easy as it sounds.

Theater

A little touch of Shakespeare in the heat.

Classical Music

A look at Dallas Civic Opera’s Plato Karayanis, a man with a noble cause who’s selling tickets to a dream.

Art

From China, with kid gloves.

Books

Sexual secrets in the Piney Woods.

Reporter

Reporter

Bucking the U.S. Air Force, breeding horses for royalty, and hightailing it out of town before the Corps of Engineers gets you.

Miscellany

No contest.

Sex and violence.

Sweets to the Suite.

R.I.P.

Some tidbits and outrages under our very noses.

Recipes

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