Politics & Policy
December 1, 1977
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This may be the Me Decade, but fortunately a great many people haven’t gotten the word.
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Some nice words about the police, exploring Texas, and listening to opportunity knock.
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“Give me your tired, your poor . . . ”
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August 31, 1977
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Houston has the healthiest urban economy in the nation, but money can’t buy happiness.
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July 31, 1977
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The Viet Nam War was the second this country lost.
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June 30, 1977
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Those who laugh first at the Texas Legislature do not laugh last.
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May 31, 1977
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Jimmy Carter’s energy program wants to bury the age of oil and gas whether it’s dead or not.
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The Making of Barbara Jordan
From poor black girl to presidential possibility, in ten not-so-easy lessons.
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The Man Who Saw Too Much
Hugh Aynesworth can’t escape what he witnessed in 1963.
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April 30, 1974
How First National Passed Republic
The biggest Texas banks are up to their same old game—getting bigger.
The Stand Up Desk
April 30, 1974
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On a warm March morning we went looking for the grave of my great-great-grandmother Nancy Daugherty. My mother had visited the grave more than 40 years before, and remembered only that it was near the capitol and that a small iron fence encircled the plot. We found the grave amid
Politics & Policy
March 31, 1974
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We Texans have always seemed to drive more, and farther, and for perhaps stranger reasons, than just about anyone else. Young people in the bleak and monotonous landscapes of West and North Texas grew up accustomed to endless, aimless rides around the countryside and to regular trips into the cities
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March 31, 1974
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We Texans have always seemed to drive more, and farther, and for perhaps stranger reasons, than just about anyone else. Young people in the bleak and monotonous landscapes of West and North Texas grew up accustomed to endless, aimless rides around the countryside and to regular trips into the
The Stand Up Desk
February 28, 1974
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Writing about Larry L. King is a difficult task that leaves me feeling like some sweating country jeweler stooped over a fine stone trying to fashion an appropriate setting out of tin. Some good writers have craft; others have soul and spirit. Larry has what great writers have: he has
Business
December 1, 1973
Airport!
Dallas and Fort Worth boosters may have pushed their cities into the 21st century when they opened the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport this September.
The Stand Up Desk
December 1, 1973
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GOOD REPORTING SOMETIMES INVOLVES RISKS. Most people see the world outside their immediate vision through the eyes of the media, and much of the world contains people and situations that are unpleasant, distasteful, and downright dangerous. Wars fit in this category. So do murders. Becoming intimately involved in either can
The Stand Up Desk
November 1, 1973
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SENIOR EDITOR GRIFFIN SMITH JR.‘s comprehensive study of the great law firms of Houston (page 53) ranks among the most important writing ever printed by this or any other Texas publication. It goes to the heart of a group of institutions whose influence upon our state is incalculable, and
The Stand Up Desk
September 30, 1973
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ALL OF US ARE GOING to have to stop Arthur Temple if he decides to move the headquarters of Time, Inc., to Diboll. We don’t care if Diboll is a nicer place to work than Manhattan, Arthur, you should have thought of that before you went ahead with the deal.The