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July 1986

Table of Contents

Features

The son’s ultimate selfishness is to see his father only as his father—not as a man. But on our first fishing trip in 25 years, I began to see my father—and myself—as the grown men we’d become.

It’s eight to five. It’s in Brenham. And all she has to worry about is getting an ice cream headache.

Proprietors of some of Texas’ priciest restaurants are spinning off more-economical eateries that are giving the originals a run for their money.

Subtract Democratic voters, add new Republicans, and it equals realignment.

To Texan’s, it’s the border. To Mexicans, it’s la frontera. It’s a hot, dazzling world where cultures clash and you’re never sure just where you stand.

Their business may read like a sci-fi script, but these aging astronauts, former NASA engineers, technocrats, and high-risk junkies are serious about selling space.

An interpretation of a classic genre.

You don’t have to be born here to qualify. The mark of a true native is an undying passion to be one.

Columns

The unbudgeted carpet.

Politics

Pancho Barrio, an ex-accountant, a charismatic Catholic, and the mayor of Juarez, hopes to topple the ruling party in a July governor’s race.

Art

“Art Among Us/Arte Entre Nosotros” reveals the delightful madness of San Antonio’s barrio art.

Books

George Bernard Shaw wrote a quarter of a million pieces of correspondence and never mailed one to San Antonio. So where does his editor choose to live?

Popular Music

North Texas bands face a tough choice: living to make music or making music for a living.

Movies

Top Gun is just a high-tech skeet shoot; Alan Alda shows a wet blanket over the fun in Sweet Liberty; Desert Bloom has a bittersweet significance; The Manhattan Project needs an attitude adjustment.

Reporter

Reporter

Wild mustangs roam home; attorney race to Houston’s bankruptcy court; UT students get rich.

Miscellany

Fighting and feuding in the Mexican Lions Club; HL&P loses a lawsuit, and everybody will pay for it; the new math of politics; where’s the beef? on a diet.

We find a successful guy in Dallas who doesn’t dress like Ross Perot!

Perk up your bath hour with these liquid refreshments.

The cure for San Antonio’s inner-city malaise may be worse than the disease.

A Texas lab that look s like the set for a Buck Rogers movie is actually the frontier of the Star Wars weapons research effort.

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