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Straight talk about gasoline supplies, prices, and profits from Texas’ most famous wildcatter.
Straight talk about gasoline supplies, prices, and profits from Texas’ most famous wildcatter.
If you’re sitting in a gas line and wondering who to blame for all this, here are some candidates.
Houston police said they shot Randy Webster because he pointed a gun at them. Randy’s father set out to prove they were lying.
Houston Grand Opera’s spring festival of operettas proved that golden-voiced, handsome men aren’t out of style. Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Mahler festival had its good days and its bad days.
A Lutheran pastor in New Braunfels challenges his congregation; a Methodist minister in Dallas soothes his.
Running on Empty.
Houston Museum of Fine Arts exhibits the works of an unsung American artist. UT-Austin gathers the best contemporary art for “Made in Texas.”
Strawberry sodas, vanilla Cokes, grilled cheese sandwiches. That’s what we love about soda fountains.
Famous people, obscure people, fat people, skinny people all have to eat. That’s what we love about people.
Simmering pots of soul food. That’s what we love about the South.
Fast food is tasteless and vulgar. There are other good things about it, too.
China, crystal, waiters in tuxedos. That’s what we love about Tony’s.
Houston welcomes a classy Paris fashion designer with a rootin', tootin', ripsnortin' wild West show.
Staying up all night setting type may not sound like the good life, but it is.
Card tricks and vintage flicks.
Talent marries business sense at Dallas’ Theater Onstage.
A Paris fashion show and the cotton-eyed Joe, nowhere but Texas.
Texas real estate up for grabs; will Houston get a third daily newspaper?
Suffering the lines at the gas pump; gambling in the magazine business; a dragnet for the Southwest’s sneakiest thief; what’s Dallas’ secret?
Neither the Lone Star Café nor Debby Boone is what country music is all about, and a few Texas citizens are trying to set the record straight.
Leon Breeden’s jazz students at North Texas State University are already pros, and they have recorded two new albums to prove it.
Space cadet.
Experts say that the chemical residues in mother’s milk aren’t enough o harm a nursing baby, but how much poison is too much?
The Whole Shootin’ Match is a Texas film with Texas actors that took a year to get shown in Texas.
Friendly faces in friendly places. That’s what we love about our old favorites.
We just rate them. You voted for them.
Ten years ago the Apollo astronauts, technicians and scientists all, landed on the Moon and touched what poets only dreamed. But that touch changed their lives.
Houston Opera Studio’s students learn their way into the limelight.
Congregation Beth Israel in Houston remembers the Holocaust quietly; Allandale Baptist Church in Austin isn’t quiet about anything.
Fill ‘er up, but don’t spill any gas on my Ralph Lauren boots.
Five new books: three thrillers, one chiller, and a swan song.
Did Helmut Gernsheim make a mistake when he sold his priceless photography collection to UT?
If the Soviet Union and the United States fought a nuclear war, no one would win. But who would win a conventional war?
Soldiers at Fort Hood agree on one thing: You don’t have to be crazy to be in the Tank Corps—but it helps.
Our photographer runs away to the circus.
Although Texans make good friends, they make even better enemies.
For legislators in Austin, home is where the bar is.
A husband and wife decide sterilization is the best answer for birth control; the question is-who does it?
Baubles, bouillon, and Bach.
Melodrama Theatres in Austin and San Antonio keep the popcorn flying. Coward and Shaw play Dallas and Houston.
Will Arthur Temple take over Time Inc.? A Bergstrom AFB dentist gets the drill.
Who’s calling the balls while the major league umpires are out on strike?
Big-time operators and one-horse operas.
Who is the mayor of Cowtown? Who is that man in the ski mask? Who wants Caddo Lake’s water?
Combat the long hot summer with gazpacho, the coolest thing that ever happened to a tomato.2 cups dry white wine 1 teaspoon coriander seeds, bruised 1/2 teaspoon black peppercorns, bruised 1 tablespoon chopped fresh basil, or 1 teaspoon dried 2 large bay leaves 1/2 teaspoon finely chopped garlic 6 cups
Combat the long hot summer with gazpacho, the coolest thing that ever happened to a tomato.Gazpacho4 ripe tomatoes, cored and peeled 2 garlic cloves, peeled 1 small onion, coarsely chopped 1 carrot, coarsely chopped 1 cucumber, peeled and coarsely chopped 1 green pepper, seeded and coarsely chopped 2 sprigs fresh
Combat the long hot summer with gazpacho, the coolest thing that ever happened to a tomato.Gazpacho1 1/3 cups blanched almonds 2 large garlic cloves 1 teaspoon salt 5 thin slices, or 1 medium-size roll, French or Italian bread (crusts removed, soaked in water, then squeezed thoroughly) 2 to 3 tablespoons
Combat the long hot summer with gazpacho, the coolest thing that ever happened to a tomato.Gazpacho6 tomatoes, very ripe, cored and quartered 1 cucumber, peeled and coarsely chopped 1 green pepper, seeded and coarsely chopped 1 small onion, peeled and quartered 2 medium garlic cloves, peeled 5 thin slices, or