June 1979
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Features
Night MovesFor legislators in Austin, home is where the bar is. I Hate You!Although Texans make good friends, they make even better enemies. Clowning AroundOur photographer runs away to the circus. |
Ben Barnes is Still RunningThe former boy wonder of Texas politics has found a new career. Still, old habits die hard. Hell on WheelsSoldiers at Fort Hood agree on one thing: You don’t have to be crazy to be in the Tank Corps-but it helps. Chinks in the ArmorIf the Soviet Union and the United States fought a nuclear war, no one would win. But who would win a conventional war? |
Columns
Behind the LinesA tale of two cities. SportsStrike! They’re OutWho’s calling the balls while the major league umpires are out on strike? CityviewAn Ill WindApril is the cruelest month, and tornado-struck Wichita Falls knows why. HealthA Stitch in TimeA husband and wife decide sterilization is the best answer for birth control; the question is-who does it? FilmU.$.A. Film Fe$tivalFilmmakers hoped to be money-makers by the end of the ninth annual U.S.A. Film Festival in Dallas. |
TheaterThey Must Pay the Rent!Melodrama Theatres in Austin and San Antonio keep the popcorn flying. Coward and Shaw play Dallas and Houston. Classical MusicBoys Will be SopranosAnd, if they’re the Texas Boys Choir, pretty good ones at that. San Antonio opera gets an overhaul. DanceMissing the PointeAt the Southwestern Regional Ballet Festival in pre-tornado Wichita Falls, the politics were hotter than the dancing. ArtThe Camera KnowsPhotographer Harry Callahan gets the picture. Painter Robert Levers gets his message across loud and clear. BooksA New Old WestTwo novels with novel views of frontier days. And, Howard Hughes revisited by two reporters who leave no stone of his rocky history unturned. ChurchCount Your BlessingsWill the Episcopalians inherit the Methodists and Baptists? Will the Pentecostals inherit some tact? |
Reporter
ReporterTexas Monthly ReporterWho is the mayor of Cowtown? Who is that man in the ski mask? Who wants Caddo Lake’s water? |
Miscellaneous
The Inside StoryThe Inside Story Nuns and guns. RecipeGazpacho AndaluzRoar of the CrowdBig-time operators and one-horse operas. RecipeGazpacho Ajo Blanco |
ToutsBaubles, bouillon, and Bach. RecipeMy GazpachoPuzzleWhat every secretary knows. RecipeWhite Wine GazpachoState SecretsWill Arthur Temple take over Time Inc.? A Bergstrom AFB dentist gets the drill. |
The Republican Convention -- Day 4 (Fri Sep 5 at 8:18 AM)
The Rising (Fri Sep 5 at 1:49 PM)
For Once, Someone Asks Bob Schieffer Questions (Wed Aug 27 at 9:07 PM)
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