June 1979 Cover

ON THE COVER: Cover photography by Joe Baraban

June 1979

Table of Contents

Features

For legislators in Austin, home is where the bar is.

Although Texans make good friends, they make even better enemies.

Our photographer runs away to the circus.

The former boy wonder of Texas politics has found a new career. Still, old habits die hard.

Soldiers at Fort Hood agree on one thing: You don’t have to be crazy to be in the Tank Corps-but it helps.

If the Soviet Union and the United States fought a nuclear war, no one would win. But who would win a conventional war?

Columns

A tale of two cities.

Dining In

Summer and gazpatcho—you shouldn’t have one without the other.

Sports

Who’s calling the balls while the major league umpires are out on strike?

Cityview

April is the cruelest month, and tornado-struck Wichita Falls knows why.

Health

A husband and wife decide sterilization is the best answer for birth control; the question is-who does it?

Film

Filmmakers hoped to be money-makers by the end of the ninth annual U.S.A. Film Festival in Dallas.

Theater

Melodrama Theatres in Austin and San Antonio keep the popcorn flying. Coward and Shaw play Dallas and Houston.

Classical Music

And, if they’re the Texas Boys Choir, pretty good ones at that. San Antonio opera gets an overhaul.

Dance

At the Southwestern Regional Ballet Festival in pre-tornado Wichita Falls, the politics were hotter than the dancing.

Art

Photographer Harry Callahan gets the picture. Painter Robert Levers gets his message across loud and clear.

Books

Two novels with novel views of frontier days. And, Howard Hughes revisited by two reporters who leave no stone of his rocky history unturned.

Church

Will the Episcopalians inherit the Methodists and Baptists? Will the Pentecostals inherit some tact?

Reporter

Reporter

Who is the mayor of Cowtown? Who is that man in the ski mask? Who wants Caddo Lake’s water?

Miscellany

The Inside Story Nuns and guns.

Big-time operators and one-horse operas.

Baubles, bouillon, and Bach.

What every secretary knows.

Will Arthur Temple take over Time Inc.? A Bergstrom AFB dentist gets the drill.

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