August 1979
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Features
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Say, Have You Heard the One About Cactus Pryor?
Don’t look now, but the rather odd gentleman with the suspicious accent and outlandish military getup may not be exactly what he seems.
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Down to the Sea in Buses
Grab your beach towel and bathing suit, but leave your car in the garage.
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Paradise Lost
The sand, the surf, the shorebirds, the dunes…everyone loves the beach at Port Aransas. We may just love it to death.
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Smiling Through it All
When gasoline is scarce, it’s not the end of the world.
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Ask Jett Rink
Straight talk about gasoline supplies, prices, and profits from Texas’ most famous wildcatter.
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Ten Giant Steps to Disaster
How did we get into this sorry energy mess? By making sorry decisions.
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Who to Pin It On
If you’re sitting in a gas line and wondering who to blame for all this, here are some candidates.
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I Solve the Energy Crisis
Or, how we can all stop worrying and learn to love the crunch.
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The Throwdown
Houston police said they shot Randy Webster because he pointed a gun at them. Randy’s father set out to prove they were lying.
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Columns
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The Zest is History
Texas, our Texas, all hail the mighty state-audiences applaud history plays in Galveston and Palo Duro Canyon.
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Next on Dallas: J. R. at the Ball
Dallas is both a television show and a city, but at the Cattle Baron’s Ball you couldn’t tell which was which.
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Pennant Fever
At midseason, long-suffering Astros and Rangers fans were having visions of grandeur. We hope they weren’t delusions.
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Let My People Pray
Were the words of Russian exile Georgi Vins heard over the din of the Southern Baptist Convention?
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I Left My Guard in San Francisco
Clint Eastwood makes a break from Alcatraz; Barbra Streisand makes another silly movie; John Wayne is remembered as a consummate actor.
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Who Needs Nelson Eddy?
Houston Grand Opera’s spring festival of operettas proved that golden-voiced, handsome men aren’t out of style. Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s Mahler festival had its good days and its bad days.
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Sausage and Salvation
A Lutheran pastor in New Braunfels challenges his congregation; a Methodist minister in Dallas soothes his.
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Behind the Lines
Running on Empty.
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The Resurrection of Patrick Henry Bruce
Houston Museum of Fine Arts exhibits the works of an unsung American artist. UT-Austin gathers the best contemporary art for “Made in Texas.”
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Reporter
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Texas Monthly Reporter
Valley politicos block minority TV; Dairy Queens reign in small-town Texas; woman diver yearns for Acapulco cliffs; Houston takes its lumps.
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Miscellany
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Touts
Stars and stripes forever.
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State Secrets
Crying over spilt oil, greedy doctors, and disappearing millionaires.
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The Inside Story
A cabal of eighteen.
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