October 1985 Cover

ON THE COVER: Cover photography by Ka-Chuen Yeung, food styling by Cosette McGee, mailbox by Joseph Melancon

October 1985

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Features

Morsels by mail, potables by post—let Texas’ mail-order food companies set your holiday table.

What’s wrong with Mexico is exactly what’s right with it.

Just how good were the good ol’ days, when Louie Welch was mayor of Houston?

Kathy Whitmire’s substantial achievements as mayor of Houston are overshadowed by her bad public image and political ineptitude—not a good situation for a candidate seeking a third term.

Darrell Royal’s supremely simple invention took Texas teams to the top and kept them there.

Houston’s Transco Tower can’t hide from a camera bent on seeing it from every vantage point.

The real Texas technology picture is much more intricate than either the mad hype of two years ago or the dire headlines of today make it out to be.

Four of the many small high-tech companies betting that they have the excitement, momentum, market, and business savvy to succeed where others have failed.

In parts of Texas drought is a steady boarder who may stray but always comes home for supper.

Columns

Jazz

Those who think there’s nothing new under the sun should check out the superior jazz improvisations on three recently released albums.

Classical Music

Forget all that debate about early instruments versus modern ones for eighteenth-century music.

Great Outdoors

Real treasure lies buried in the muddy, mushy silt of our rivers and lakes.

Movies

Plenty isn’t enough; Year of the Dragon is a yellow-devil hysteria; uncompromised casting makes Compromising Positions click; Volunteers imposes eighties cynicism on sixties idealism.

Popular Music

Tuff Enuff, the Fabulous Thunderbirds’ fifth and finest album, has a snap, crackle, and pop that could finally make the T-Birds explode.

Reporter

Reporter

The villains behind the seat belt law; the shoeshine boys behind the border bird trade; the pastor behind Austin’s chicest church.

Miscellany

Robots in feedlots, Krishnas as cowboys, Nowhere but Texas.

Today’s with-it seniors are settling in American’s newest retirement boomtown—Kerrville.

The maddest crowd in town? The incensed citizens at the Dallas Auto Pound who have to shell out for the privilege of reclaiming their towed vehicles.

Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s—Halley’s Comet!

Rough sailing for the water plan; sore losers at MHMR; a free ride for Mattox; now a word on behalf of ambulance chasing.

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