January 1980
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Features
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The Baby Factory
At Houston’s Jefferson Davis Hospital, the wonders of modern medicine collide with the raw realities of birth, poverty, neglect and hope.
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Life Got You Down
Don’t despair, learn to Think Positive! Success and happiness are only a seminar, a cassette library, and several hundred dollars away!
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The Vanishing Steak
Beefing and chewing the fat about a rare pleasure that’s almost done for.
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Elegant Fossils
Once Texas was a land of fabulous, ornate county courthouses. It still is, but today they’re flamboyant relics in our streamlined urban landscapes.
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Columns
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Ten, Nine, Eight, Seven . . .
The Panhandle is home for the country’s only H-bomb assembly plant. Aren’t you glad we told you?
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Love For Sale
The Midland Jazz Classic wasn’t cheap, but it was worth the price.
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Catch a Riding Star
A boy and his horse reach great heights in The Black Stallion. The Rose, with Bette Midler, is no American beauty.
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Terminal Case
Galveston has withstood tidal waves, hurricanes, gamblers, and tourists. Can it survive a superport?
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The Trill of It All
Houston and Dallas opera companies could fudge on shoe sizes when it came to casting Cinderellas, but the voices had to fit just so.
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Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
A Dallas rabbi says Christmas is a form of persecution for Jews; a Disciples of Christ pastor discusses suffering with equanimity.
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Behind the Lines
Two questions about school desegregation: Is busing the only way? Are integrated schools inferior?
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Dr. Updike
John Updike’s problems are our pleasures. Mean Scrooge McDuck returns in a nostalgic comic-book collection.
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Life After SMU
When Stage #1 opened as a halfway house for theater graduates from SMU, the participants weren’t pitied but applauded.
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Doing the Greenville Avenue Boogie
By reputation Dallas is a staid city. But there is one strip where Dallas is fevered, excessive, and lascivious, and where every night is party night.
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Willie and the Power Boys
New records from Texas’ die-hard country, rock, and punk musicians.
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Reporter
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Texas Monthly Reporter
George Bush wants to shake your hand; Rita Clements wants to paint your Governor’s Mansion; Dallas wants to bring you art, lots of art.
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The Good Soldier
George Bush strives for a higher command.
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Miscellany
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Puzzle
Letters please.
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The Inside Story
Steering Bum Steers.
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Touts
Night stalkers and day walkers.
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State Secrets
A helicopter plague descends on Dallas; is the Texas environmentalist an endangered species?; cattlemen won’t be cowed.
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Roar of the Crowd
Movers and fakers.
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