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August 1992

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Features

Once, the State of Texas was going to put Kenneth McDuff to death as payment for his crimes. Instead, it set him free to murder again.

Kenneth McDuff is just one among hundreds of violent criminals who never should have been paroled—but they were.

George H. W. Bush has given Texas the Republican convention—and little else.

A pivotal loss in the 1970 Senate race shaped George Bush’s future. An excerpt from a new book on the 1988 presidential campaign.

Jim Baker’s boyhood home, take in Robert Mosbacher’s old stomping grounds, and see the Houstonian suite where George Bush slept!

Meet the people who keep Texas' trains on track.

Who came first—Indiana Jones of Hollywood or Vendyl Jones of Arlington, the archaeologist who has spent years trying to dig up the fabled Ark of the Covenant?

A summer guide to the coolest place in Texas: the Davis Mountains.

Columns

Behind the Lines

Business

How the owner of Goode Company in Houston took the three basic Texas food groups—barbecue, Tex-Mex, and burgers—and built an empire.

Film

Austin film-maker Robert Rodriguez has joined the growing list of up-and-coming minority directors.

Food

Juan Espinoza’s classy cabrito puts Johnny’s restaurant in front of the herd.

Reporter

Reporter

John L. Guldemann scorns claims that Longhorns damage the natural area.

Reporter

Reporter

Agents target the flow of contraband on the border.

Reporter

Plainview became Rustwater, Kansas, for the shoot.

Reporter

Houston’s favorite bouncer keeps the peace with style and a smile.

Miscellany

Roar of the Crowd

State of the Art

State Secrets

Republicans stew over Democrats at the GOP convention.

Recipes

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