Camping gets you back to the basics: blisters, chiggers, and, yes, deep satisfaction.
April 1981

Features
Someone endured weeks of hard work, loneliness, and seasickness to land that lovely pink delicacy on your plate.
In her darkest, final hours, a young mother turns to a new kind of medical care for help.
Evangelist James Robison is using the pulpit, prime time television, and Cullen Davis to try to save the world.

Dallas was in an ugly mood in November 1973, and non one had done more to create that mood than H.L. Hunt.
Today’s high-tech camping gear has stolen a march on your old kit bag.
Miscellany
Cutting up in the Big Thicket Association; uranium mines get the shaft; the Light at the end of the tunnel; how to make Yankees pay for our oil.
Columns
Le Select gives Houston fine French cooking in simple surrounds and at unbeatable prices; Hedary’s, a Lebanese outpost in Fort Worth, offers adventurous Cowtowners some exotic alternatives to beef.
While other U.S. museums sought Rembrandts and Cészannes, Fort Worth’s maverick Amon Carter Museum collected an astound assortment of paintings and photographs of the American West.
In a city known for its tough ethnic politics, Henry Cisneros is out to prove that a Mexican Emerican can be elected mayor of San Antonio.
When a youn woman found out she was slowly going deaf, she had to struggle not only with the handicap but also with her refusal to admit the loss.
In Eyewitness things are never what the seem; Roman Polanskifailed to take a novel approach to Tess; a heroine of Cattle Annie and Little Britches keeps the movie from fading into the sunset; the producers of The Dogs of War should have let sleeping dogs lie; American Pop is kitsch as kitsch can.
Reporter
Meet Texas’ staunches liberal crusader, biggest trade show, slickest drug peddlers, and canniest mall builders.