Dining Out
May 31, 1978
Currying Flavor
If you think lamb korma is a wooly creature with good vibes, you’ve got a lot to learn about Indian food.
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Touts
May 31, 1978
Touts
A bushel and a pack.
Roar of the Crowd
May 31, 1978
Roar of the Crowd
The Hunts and the hunted.
Reporter
May 31, 1978
Texas Monthly Reporter
Taking on the Shah of Iran in Beeville; trying to save an eaglet in Waco; juggling sex in Galveston; flipping the switch on nuclear power; and fighting panjic at monstrous DFW Airport.
Lifestyle
May 31, 1978
Uphill Racer
If the race is to the swift, what’s lefty over for the slow?
The Inside Story
May 31, 1978
The Inside Story
Good sports and green grape cobbler.
Health
May 31, 1978
Our Bodies, Our Cells
Life is a riffle. Cancer is a riddle. Are they all the same riddle?
Feature
May 31, 1978
Little Bruisers
Fighters from all over Texas slug it out in the Golden Gloves; for most, that’s the only gold they’ll ever see.
Contest
May 31, 1978
Contest
Yellow fever.
Politics & Policy
May 31, 1978
Behind the Lines
What energy crisis?
Music
May 1, 1978
Little Joe
Amid blaring trumpets, raised fists, bottles of beer, and a cheering mob stands the king of Saturday night.
Style & Design
May 1, 1978
Expensive People
At the top, a good family helps, clothes help, manners help, the right friends help, but nothing helps like money.
Style & Design
May 1, 1978
Cabin Fever
Years ago, kids used to play pioneer with Lincoln Logs. Today grown-ups are playing pioneer—only with real log cabins.
Touts
April 30, 1978
Touts
Frying the midnight oil.
Sports
April 30, 1978
Pennant Wise, Dollar Foolish
The Texas Rangers are spending their way to an American League pennant—or bankruptcy.
Roar of the Crowd
April 30, 1978
Roar of the Crowd
Equal time for farmers, politicians, and handguns.
Review
April 30, 1978
Texas Monthly Review
Andy Warhol soups up the superstars; dancers do the towns; Beverly Sills still casts a spell; ladybug found with strange bedfellows; and folk music isn’t dead, it’s just in Houston.
The Inside Story
April 30, 1978
The Inside Story
Reporter blooms.
News & Politics
April 30, 1978
I Was a Bum
Hey, buddy, can you spare a dime?
Dealing
April 30, 1978
High Risk Policy
An insurance company imbroglio—full of high rollers, big deals and pitched battles—ended with a bang, and a few whimpers.
Contest
April 30, 1978
Contest
Poetic license.
Cityview
April 30, 1978
It’s Delightful, It’s Delovely, It’s Decatur
If you’re looking for the best place to live in Texas, think small.
Business
April 30, 1978
Unfriendly Skies
Braniff is hopping the Atlantic to London; Pan Am is just hopping mad.
Politics & Policy
April 30, 1978
Behind the Lines
Why we don’t endorse candidates.
Politics & Policy
April 1, 1978
Election Tip Sheet
The dark horses, heavy favorites, and close calls of this year’s big elections.
Style & Design
April 1, 1978
Plastic Fantastic
“Plastics,” the man whispered to Dustin Hoffman in ‘The Graduate,’ and plastics—transformed from junk into art—it is.
Business
April 1, 1978
Daddy’s Money
The feuding over H. L. Hunt’s vast fortune is a family affair, and what a family!
Touts
April 1, 1978
Touts
Take the money and run.
Roar of the Crowd
April 1, 1978
Roar of the Crowd
Championship of Texas cities: rematch.
Reporter
April 1, 1978
Texas Monthly Reporter
On the road with Dolph and John; a fatal case of mistaken identity; butterflies on the rocks; Metroplex blood sport; and polled Herefords, polled Herefords, polled Herefords everywhere.
The Inside Story
April 1, 1978
The Inside Story
Writers, pensive and frenetic.
Health
April 1, 1978
The Agony and the Allergy
You don’t have to move to Arizona to cure your allergies, but you may have to get rid of your cat.
Being Texan
April 1, 1978
The Petrified Forest
Behind the pine curtain of deep East Texas is a world trapped in the past and hidden from the future: lush woods, poor whites, the descendants of slaves, and an aristocracy still breathing the rarefied air of the Old South.
Dining In
April 1, 1978
Ooh La Lamb
Texas has always had lamb; now we give you lamb chops.
Country Notes
April 1, 1978
Stayin’ Alive
Varmints: we can’t live with ‘em and we can’t live without ‘em.
Contest
April 1, 1978
Contest
Down memoir lane.
Politics & Policy
April 1, 1978
Behind the Lines
Requiem for a heavyweight.
Being Texan
March 1, 1978
The Power and the Glory of Billy Graham
How a towheaded kid from North Carolina became God’s best salesman.
Touts
March 1, 1978
Touts
Wheelers and dealers.
Roar of the Crowd
March 1, 1978
Roar of the Crowd
A word from friends of Texas women, fire ants, and Close Encounters.
Review
March 1, 1978
Texas Monthly Review
The best of Weegee is yet to come, alas; DCO season goes out with a bang; more from two Texas-bred rock ‘n’ roll successes; and an electronic opera makes a good birthday present.
Reporter
March 1, 1978
Texas Monthly Reporter
Vying for Barbara Jordan’s job, Enchanted Rock on the block, peddling pollution, and don’t the Super Drum beat all?
Politics & Policy
March 1, 1978
The Case Against the Farmers
Everybody says they want to help the farmers, but nobody wants to face up to what they really need.
Lifestyle
March 1, 1978
Past Tense
Anybody can make history, but you have to go to a convention to become an historian.
The Inside Story
March 1, 1978
The Inside Story
Tales of our intrepid authors.
True Crime
March 1, 1978
Playboys of the Western Plains
Amarillo millionaire Stanley Marsh 3 couldn’t believe his own good fortune—the Cullen Davis murder trial was coming to town.
Feature
March 1, 1978
The Art West of the Pecos / Design
How a small-town Texas boy turned a taste for Southwestern art into the biggest gallery in Santa Fe.
Being Texan
March 1, 1978
Saturday Night
If it’s Saturday night and you just got paid, you’re a fool about your money and don’t try to save—go dancing.
Politics & Policy
March 1, 1978
The Smoldering Fire
More than once San Antonio has been the crucible for a Mexican revolution. A band of guerrillas in Oaxaca believes it could happen again.
Country Notes
March 1, 1978
Fencing Myself In
The best defense is a good fence.