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The Panhandle is home for the country’s only H-bomb assembly plant. Aren’t you glad we told you?
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The Panhandle is home for the country’s only H-bomb assembly plant. Aren’t you glad we told you?
Two questions about school desegregation: Is busing the only way? Are integrated schools inferior?
If the eighties are here, where did the seventies go.
Behind the gleaming facades of many new apartment villages are the crumbling walls of next year’s urban blight.
There are two questions about John Connally: Is he good enough to be president? Is he too bad to be president?
A modest proposal for the eighties.
Nicaragua’s new junta may discover it’s easier to depose a dictator than to rebuild a ravaged country.
Give me land, lots of land . . .
Everyone in Austin loves sparkling Barton Creek—especially the developers.
Waltzing across Texas.
Don’t look now, but the rather odd gentleman with the suspicious accent and outlandish military getup may not be exactly what he seems.
Running on Empty.
Fill ‘er up, but don’t spill any gas on my Ralph Lauren boots.
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.
Although Texans make good friends, they make even better enemies.
For legislators in Austin, home is where the bar is.
The former boy wonder of Texas politics has found a new career. Still, old habits die hard.
On winning the National Magazine Award.
The first shot in Clements’ campaign to cut 25,000 state employees fells 68 casualties.
The medical miasma.
Do you want a rare antique muzzle-loader or a holdup pistol that can’t be traced? You can find them both at a gun show.
A farewell to celebrities and to arms.
Can a Texas revolutionary find happiness exiled in Europe? Not when his revolution is in Mexico.
Chemical waste disposal sits are environmental time bombs-if they don’t get you know, they’ll get you later.
How a bountifully talented young Texas writer based a novel on Lyndon Johnson, won high praise, and then…
As New Ulm went, so goes New York.
It will be up to the 66th Legislature to solve these problems, and we’ll have to live with the solutions.
Stone walls do not a prison make.
The Rockefellers are coming, and J.C. Lewis thinks they’re after the American farmer.
A funny thing happened on the way to the governor’s office.
Good-bye to Main Street.
For the Republicans this fall, it may be a trip to oblivion.
Remember the great campaign against drugs? Dueling enforcement agencies have turned it into a civil war.
Bringing it all back home.
Stalking elusive birds and energy czars.
The uselessness of college.
What energy crisis?
Why we don’t endorse candidates.
The dark horses, heavy favorites, and close calls of this year’s big elections.
Requiem for a heavyweight.
Everybody says they want to help the farmers, but nobody wants to face up to what they really need.
More than once San Antonio has been the crucible for a Mexican revolution. A band of guerrillas in Oaxaca believes it could happen again.
Crime and punishment.
For Bob Strauss, power is its own reward.
On the occasion of the fifth anniversary of this magazine.
At the National Women’s Conference, the feminists changed their sandals for pumps and embraced mainstream America.
Corpus Christi is the victim - what is the crime?
Like most wrong ideas, the concept of the sunbelt didn’t matter until people started putting it into practice.
Texas’ oldest city is heading for a political showdown, thanks to some newcomers to the power game.