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July 1984

Table of Contents

Features

If mother doesn’t make food like she used to, there are still a few great cafes in Texas that will.

Hondo Crouch went from being a champion athlete to being the sad clown of Texas’ fun-and-games capital.

With the help of a friendly banker and some friendlier politicians, Clinton Manges conquered might Mobil Oil and saved his empire. But not for long—it’s in jeopardy again.

Sandi Barton works from 8:30 to 5 as a secretary in a downtown Dallas office. She knows a lot of women look down on her job, but it suits her just fine.

An interpretation of a classic genre.

On Sunday it is legal to buy beer but not baby bottles, screws but not screwdrivers, disposable diapers but not cloth ones. No place but Texas.

Columns

Plugging in and Plugging Along

Jazz

In the sixties the fee-jazz movement produced music that was defiantly experimental, and the same artists are still playing some of the most stimulating jazz around.

Movies

Indiana Jones bashes us with unthinking cruelty: The Natural is a balk; Sixteen Candlesis lit up with tickling teenage talk.

Software

The Flight Simulator and Heroism in the Modern Age are realistic new computer games that offer a wonderful mix of fantasy and reality; Free Enterprise is too simplistic to be much fun.

Reporter

Reporter

A meditation on the radioactive peril in Juarez.

Miscellany

Austin’s ins and outs. Lamaze’s pros and cons, the sun’s ups and downs.

Presenting the Big Bend Condos and Solitario Safari; Mexico finds out what it feels like to have an immigrant problem; Oscar Wyatt and Clinton Manges gird for battle; inside report from the special session.

Summertime, summertime, sum-sum-summertime.

The acid syndrome.

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