August 1975
-
Features
-
-
Good News
Cancer treatments, windshield wipers that don’t squeak, and other major breakthroughs on the frontiers of science.
-
The Last Aggie Joke
Behold the miracles at College Station!
-
The Hottest Place in the Whole U.S.A.
How the Texas heat can sap your energy, dull your intelligence, send you to an early grave, and make you sweat.
-
Being Single: A True-Life Adventure
The loneliness of the long distance bachelor.
-
Forgotten Places
What Texas once was, so these wilderness areas still remain.
-
Leroy’s Revenge
Ringside as two dogs—father and son—fight to the death.
-
-
Columns
-
Tortuga’s Complaint
Peter Matthiessen writes of men pursuing a dying profession and Philip Roth pursues his critics.
-
High Mass
A famous conductor tries again with a recording of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, and this time we think he’s got it right.
-
You Be the Judge
The battles in John Connally’s trial were fought before the jury, but the war may have been won offstage.
-
Stormy Weather
Why should Texans worry about New York going broke?
-
Say It with Music
Nashville, The Fortune, and Jaws: the perils and rewards of making it big.
-
The Old Menu and the Sea
Fresh fish, and other rarities at seafood restaurants.
-
Menace in the Grass
What you can’t see can hurt you.
-
Reporter
-
Miscellany