April 1975 Issue
Features
Greetings From the Eighth Wonder of the World
A candid celebration of ten years of the Astrodome and Astrothink.
What Your Mother Never Told You About Rice
A grain of truth about the high cost of food.
Columns
The Way We Weren’t
Washington-on-the-Brazos is a little run-down for a Texas shrine; but then, it was run-down in 1836 too.
Three for the Show
Fort Worth’s art museums are a bigger attraction than the stockyards and, what’s more, most art doesn’t smell.

This‘ll Be the Day
In Lubbock Buddy Holly was just a skinny kid with glasses, but to rock-and-roll fans he was—and is—a whole lot more.
Sold Arabian
The Alamo was only the first step in the Arabs’ attempted takeover of what’s sacred to us Texans. The Customer’s Man
Cleaning Up the Act
Both Warren Beatty and Ellen Burstyn are going to wash that malaise right out of their hair.
Reporter
Laredo: Fuel’s Paradise
Everybody in Laredo is being excessively kind to Tony Sanchez, Sr., these days, quite a change from several years ago when Sanchez took in ten to twelve thousand a year selling office supply furniture and trading oil and gas leases on the side to help make ends meet. Kindest of