August 1973
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Features
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Inside the World Series of Poker
Big-time poker players don’t worry about luck; they don’t need it.
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Crime: The Way It’s Done
Crime is a craft and has its secrets.
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The Last Romantic Outlaw
Tired of running, he let himself be caught; then he busted right out again.
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The Laredo-San Antonio Heroin Wars
At least 90 are already dead as drug lords fight for routes into Texas.
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The Best Private Eye In Texas
High-speed chases, murder investigations, and window-peeping are all in a day’s work.
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Columns
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Behind the Lines
MANY OF THE ARTICLES IN this issue are, in one way or another, about crime. It seems we have opened Pandora’s box. Returning from lunch one day we found that the offices next to ours had been burglarized. The next afternoon we got a call from Al Reinert, who has written two stories for this …
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What’s Up Documentary?
Fantasy finds it hard to compete with reality.
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The Pinball Wizard
What to do with your quarters.
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Crime On The Streets
Don’t look now Dow-Jones, but white collar crime is becoming a major growth industry.
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The Truth About Beans
Beans are. . .well, beans.
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Miscellany
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Touts
The Real Thing While billows of smoke encircle the Holmes Road dump, the City of Houston atones somewhat for its ecological sins by its production of Hou-Actinite, a remarkable 100 per cent organic fertilizer which is recycled at the Northside Waste Water Control Facility from city waste water and raw sewage. Hou-Actinite is certified pure …
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Briar Patch
THE SPACEMAN’S LAST GASP CRAIG RASPBERRY IS NINE YEARS OLD and strikingly reminiscent of Mr. Peabody’s pet boy Sherman on the old Bullwinkle show, down to an air of scientific detachment which seems to be a trait he shares with his fellow citizens of Aurora, Texas, of whom there are not a great many. Aurora …
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