Forget your Dallas cowboys and your Houston Astros. Texas’ real champions count birds once a year at freeport. They’re not bird watchers, they’re birders. And therein lies a tail.
April 1974

Features

The GOP and Democratic chairmen are both from Texas. Right there the similarity ends, or begins, no, ends.

I see Ross Perot as a throwback, a distinct cousin to two types of 19th century mythical American heroes. In his deeds, Perot is as gargantuan—as wonderful and awful and ridiculous—as Davy Crockett. In his idealisms, Perot would fashion himself, and the rest of us, after one of the proper…
Did the clean-cut knight get trapped by the Wall Street dragon? And did he, after all, have himself to blame?
All roads have to go somewhere; but it could be that roads in Texas are going the wrong way.
Columns
Daddies can’t have babies, but they can sure help their wives. This is a guide to where and how.
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…
Doug Sahm's music is his own, but what luck that he plays it for everybody.
What you eat affects the way you think; ad what you think affects the way you eat.
Senator Bentsen is proposing legislation to end the two-tiered market. It might work; then again the market might take care of itself.
Cops, sci-fi, and westerns get served up as leftovers, and only one still tastes good. Meanwhile, Robert Altman has another dazzling film.

Baseball, an old and idiosyncratic game, loses and old and idiosyncratic field.
Miscellany
PEYTON PLACE COMES TO DALLAS Bill Peyton’s antiques, ranging from the most elaborate Louis XIV or Napoleonic pieces to funky wine presses, Coca-Cola mirrors, church pulpits, and pump organs, come from all over Europe in 40-foot containers, or from estates in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana. For 15 years he…
Reporter
JUSTICE IN EL PASO Southern California mystery writer Ross McDonald in his best book, The Goodby Look, has his world-weary private eye hero Lew Archer lament, “I have a secret passion for mercy . . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.” Richard Wheatley’s justice…