November 1989
Features
When San Antonio’s Memorial Minutemen took on a crosstown rival, all they had to lose was their chance to go down in history as Texas’ worst high school football team.
The guy whose name is synonymous with swindling is finally a free man—but it may not last.
Your jet’s lagging. You’re sick of reading and people-watching. Cheer up: just a gate away might be great chili, a shopping mall, or even a place to pray.
Cycling a hundred miles is a hard enough way to spend a Saturday. It’s even harder in Wichita Falls in August.
Columns
Daytime television isn’t just for housewives anymore; car salesmen, cops, and stockbrokers are tuning in to business networks.
Two Texas orchestras bid for international acclaim: the Dallas symphony with a cushy, costly new home and the Houston symphony with a creative new conductor.
To a small rural school district, the size of a teacher’s family can spell the difference between money in the bank and fiscal disaster.
In his new book, James Reston, Jr., tries unsuccessfully to make John Connally larger than life.
Reporter
Miscellany
Hooker strikes out; Texas screenwriters hit Hollywood pay dirt; Baptists bicker over Bible book.
What Donald Trump means to American Airlines, win or lose; oil and landowners don’t mix; why it’s hard to do the right thing about school finance.

