June 1996
Table of Contents
Features
The Last RefugeFor years the dusty outpost of Terlingua has been a magnet for renegades and loners looking for a haven from the modern world. No wonder the brother of the suspected Unabomber holed up there. Truckin’On the road with Victor Morales, the schoolteacher turned U.S. Senate candidate who is out to prove he’s not running on empty. Junior AchievementWillie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Jeff Walker—and now Junior Brown? The former community college teacher is the latest outlaw to hijack Texas country music, and he may be the greatest. |
The Lawsuit from HellHow an East Texas attorney spawned the most massive products-liability case ever— one that has cost millions of dollars and involved thousands of plaintiffs and might never end. The Big Chill-OutFeeling stressed? Soothe the strain of the daily grind at these terrific Texas retreats. |
Columns
Behind the LinesThe Tort TaxNo high diving boards at public pools. No cameras in operating rooms. All this and more, thanks to lawyers. SportsThe Rites of SwingIt doesn’t matter that his most famous pupil was shark- bitten at the Masters. Butch Harmon is still Texas’ hottest golf pro since Harvey Penick. BusinessMerchant of DeathBy pooh-poohing sentimentality and focusing on profits, Houston funeral home mogul Robert Waltrip is making a killing. |
MusicThe Hole StoryAustin’s Butthole Surfers have always been very strange. But these days, the strangest thing about them is their mainstream respectability. CitiesUp and AtomThe death of the superconducting supercollider may have been traumatic, but at their core the people of Waxahachie haven’t changed. |
Reporter
FaceCheril SantiniThe Ex FilesMarcia Gay HardenReporterLost in SpaceTen years after the Challenger disaster, there are still dark clouds on the horizon for NASA’s space shuttle program. |
Hot BoxCD and Book ReviewsHomemadeHe Takes the CakeNow ShowingThe Art World |
Miscellany
Roar of the CrowdGrander TourThe Hill Country is in—but what’s in the Hill Country? Plus: Texas’ top drug lawyer in the court of public opinion. The Inside StorySwartz and All |
State SecretsBeef Choice |
