1978 – Page 5 of 5

Contest

Roll over, Hank Williams.

Behind the Lines

Crime and punishment.

Open House

Now for something completely different: a house that’s not rectangles or squares.

The Great Rockdale Football Mutiny

What happens when a high school football team tries to bench its coach?

Touts

The Boys of Winter

At the state touch football tournament, winning wasn’t everything—or was it?

Roar of the Crowd

In defense of maids, COPS, and redfish.

Texas Monthly Review

Vanity thy name is a theatrical success; Tom Taylor conjures the real Woody Guthrie; Dallas Civic Opera misses again, and then again; Mel Brooks has another winner; contemporary photographers send a cold message.

Grasping At Strauss

For Bob Strauss, power is its own reward.

The Streets of Laredo

The real Nuevo Laredo isn’t George Washington’s Birthday, Boystown, or throngs of tourists; it’s the street life.

San Antonio is Better Than Houston, Dallas, or Anyplace Else

Some disagree. They are wrong.

Houston is Better Than Dallas

It is boorish, cluttered, aggravating, rich, beautiful, explosive, titillating, cosmopolitan, endearing, and has a full head of steam.

Dallas Is Better Than Houston

Big D is not called Big D for nothing.

Fire and Rice

Now that you’ve mastered the art of using chopsticks, here’s something fantastic to put between them.

Finders Keepers?

The feds are trying to get our gas again; this time they’ve gone all the way to the Supreme Court.

Contest

Are you from Blewett? Don’t enter this contest.

Behind the Lines

On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of this magazine.

The Good Old Girls

At the National Women’s Conference, the feminists changed their sandals for pumps and embraced mainstream America.

Art Yucko

How we learned to stop worrying and love the fifties.

Touts

Hot tubs and chili pots.

Roar of the Crowd

Last words on the West, the remains of the defenders of the Alamo, and Larry McMurtry’s sagging shelf.

Texas Monthly Review

Royal women reign in Houston; Spanish artist eats dough; new novel for the operating table; more UFOs from Hollywood; wanted: a conductor for the San Antonio Symphony.

Texas Monthly Reporter

Larry Flynt hears the call; everyone hears Bob Bullock; McConn job in Houston; ghost in the newsroom; and cotton on the dinner table.

Corpus Delicti

Corpus Christi is the victim - what is the crime?

The Line Forms Here

It’s tough to select food in a fast-moving serving line. A cafeteria is no place for the timid.

1978 Bum Steer Awards

Last year’s biggest bloopers, bleepers, blunders, bungles, boo-boos, bad breaks, bobbles, bevues, balks, and Briscoeisms.

The Last of the Big-Time Spenders

It’s not Diamond Jim Brady, Bet a Million Gates, an Arab sheik, or Liberace. It’s a library.

Split Decision

Analysts can’t decide whether Tom Browne, Inc., is a silk stock or a sow’s ear.

Poultry in Motion

There are two ways to raise chickens: the right way and this way.

Contest

Saying will make it so.

Behind the Lines

Like most wrong ideas, the concept of the sunbelt didn’t matter until people started putting it into practice.