August 1980
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Features
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Fire!
What you don’t know about your fire department could burn you up.
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The Secret Life of the Beach
Along the silent, lovely beach, tiny armies fight in the tide, fierce battles rage in the sky, and nocturnal marauders slither across the sand.
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How to Become a Billionaire
H. L. Hunt not only left his sons with a few hundred million dollars each to carry them through life but he also taught them the Five Commandments that had made him rich.
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Ring of Truth
Two brave bulls stood between Paco Olivera and the prize he had worked for all his life.
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Crowning Achievements
Fearless photographs of a big Texas cover-up
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A Burning Question
Can your city’s fire department take the heat?
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Columns
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The Armadillo’s Last Waltz
The imminent demise of Austin’s famed music hall already has Texans singing the Armadillo homesick blues.
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The War-horse
The Big Red One is Sam fuller’s war baby; roadie never gets out of its rut; The Tin Drum misses a few beats.
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Lasagne and Old Lace
Try pasta and veal at Sergio’s in Dallas—that’s Italian! For an outstanding Sunday brunch, put your stock in Austin’s Green Pastures.
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Bring Home the Bach
Mozart and Beethoven made an appearance, but Johann Sebastian was the guest of honor at Victoria’s annual Bach Festival.
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God With the Wends
Texas’ rural Wends take time from chores to attend St. Paul’s Lutheran in Serbin; vacationers on Padre Island take time from play to attend an open-air mass at St. Andrew’s by the Sea.
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Why I wish I Didn’t Have $137 Million
Those luck Arabs, with all that oil! The only problem, as a Saudi finance minister points out, is that oil is all they have.
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Behind the Lines
Poor Houston.
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The Crime and the Pity
Michael Mewshaw reopens the case of a boyhood friend who murdered his parents’ Rober Shattuck reexamines the story of the Wild Boy.
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The Conqueror Worm
All the beautiful kickers gathered in Houston for the premiere of Urban Cowboy. It began at a shopping center and ended in a honk-tonk, and John Travolta had to say he liked it.
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It’s Not Whether You Win
The Astros are packing ‘em in with a great new pitch—a sales pitch.
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Reporter
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Texas Monthly Reporter
Yankee lawyers kick up dust in the Panhandle; maniacal marathon man runs for his life; the redfish that got away; are Dallas’s tax ills contagious?
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Miscellany
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Puzzle
Type cast.
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The Inside Story
In the tradition.
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Touts
Stringing in the rain.
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State Secrets
Summer in the city; publisher’s power play; biting the handout that feeds you; will Oscar Wyatt abandon America?