ON THE COVER: Cover photograph: George Tahdooahnippah By Kurt Markus
February 1989
Table of Contents
Features
The Lost TribeThey were the classic Texas Indians—fierce, majestic, and free. Today’s Comanches find their lives defined by legends and bitter truths. The Wooing of Chairman WangThe decision by a Chinese plastics company to build a billion-dollar plant in Texas proves that economic development works—but it comes at a high price. Art for Heart’s SakeA great big valentine from 95 artists to a San Antonio hospital’s transplant program. |
“I’m A Nazi Until Death”Out of work, at loggerheads with their parents, and under constant police surveillance since they turned to an alien ideology, Dallas’ radical skinheads remain defiant. A Dirty, Rotten MessEvery day each of us contributes five pounds to the growing mountain of garbage. Now the mountain looks like a volcano that’s threatening to erupt. Chip AhoyA new gambling-cruise-ship enterprise out of Port Isabel makes it possible to spend an evening in a casino while going nowhere in the Gulf. |
Columns
Behind the LinesThree years and $400,000 later. PoliticsJailhouse HockBill Clements’ ambitious—and expensive—prison-expansion plan is only a tiny first step toward escaping the overcrowding problem. |
EnvironmentSpot MarketRanchers hate bobcats. Trappers love their pelts. Both parties have found that there’s more than one reason to skin a cat. Popular MusicBlithe SpiritIt took a bit of coaxing, but when R. T. Williams finally sat down at the piano again, the Grey Ghost came back to life. |
Reporter
ReporterThis is NowLooking forward to Jerry Jeff Walker’s second Luckenbach, looking into a new way to settle feuds, and looking back over the career of Texas’ most prolific unknown author. |
Miscellany
Roar of the CrowdNever giving in; making it big; reclaiming a neighborhood. |
State SecretsNo TASP, No PlayA competency test for colleges; gauging the governor’s race; hard times at Hermann Hospital; what on earth was George Bush thinking about? |
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