December 1978
Table of Contents
Features
The Friends of Cloyce Box.With friends like these, Box’s Company didn’t need enemies. Home Sweet Mobile HomeToday the king of the road takes his castle with him. Hard TimeEllis prison houses 2400 dangerous criminals, and it’s the safest place to live in Texas. |
So You Want to Be Chairman of Exxon?How the world’s largest corporation decides who will make it too the top—and who won’t. The ChaseFour wetbacks are trying to get to San Antonio. The Border Patrol is trying to stop them. Sick SundaysThe looney pastimes of a depraved minority. |
Columns
Dining InThe Graining of AmericaIf Jesus had tried to feed the multitudes with today’s bread, he would have been drummed out of the miracle business. Behind the LinesA funny thing happened on the way to the governor’s office. PoliticsA Call to FarmsThe Rockefellers are coming, and J.C. Lewis thinks they’re after the American farmer. LifestyleIt’s a Small WorldDon’t laugh at a model railroader or call his little train a toy. Country NotesSacred CowsCows are dumb, they eat a lot, and they cost more to raise than they’re worth. Still, you can’t help loving ’em. FilmCelluloid CircusThe New York Film Festival is a movie addict’s biggest fix. |
TheaterBlind AlleyAlley Theater’s season opener, Scream, was about Jews and Nazis. It was also about how not to run a regional theater. JazzPolk Salad DaysMusic to live in Austin for. ArtThe World on an EaselThe modern realist’s motto is what you see is what you paint. Classical MusicBella NormaNow you like it, now you don’t, now you like it again—Houston Grand Opera’s Norma. BooksDays of the HocusSleazy Holly inspires a book that is sleazier. |
Reporter
ReporterTexas Monthly ReporterThe dark side of doing business in Saudi Arabia; an endangered mountain in El Paso; and big profits with small airplanes. |
Miscellany
The Inside StoryTake cover. Roar of the CrowdFrom pilot to Post. |
ToutsHomes for the holidays. State SecretsWill somebody write the Great American LBJ biography? Is Billy Clayton Texas’ Earl Butz? Will Dolph take care of his flock? |
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