July 1980

Features
Reading Big Oil’s annual reports for the truth about profits is a little like drilling for oil in the Baltimore Canyon: you know it’s there, but how deep will you have to go to find it?
Four years ago we brought you the Best of Texas. Now we do it again—only better.
When black militant Lee Otis Johnson got out of prison his old friends welcomed him back with open arms. Later, some of them wished they hadn’t.
Where else but the Galleria can you find a lavender lace Western dress, a Persian turquoise necklace, and Texas’ most expensive potato chips?

Texas’ most glamorous mall has all the comforts of home and then some. So why not move in?
Miscellany
Houston could forfeit the world’s largest convention; Mutscher loses—again; real estate empires totter; the growing ambitions of Bob Bullock.
Skyscrapers and front porches, sex on the border and at the table, animals assailed and saved.
Columns
Move over, Jett Rink. The West Texas wildcatter may give way to a new breed: the West Texas vintner.
Have you ever wondered what Houston and Dallas look like to tourists? A Gray Line Bus is the perfect way to find out.
Two guest conductors in Texas are wizards at their work; three Houston Grand Opera productions are enchanting.
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Dallas have their Kingdom on earth; Presbyterians in Midland have taken root on the dusty plain.
Once again our presidential candidates are promising to get the government under control. Here’s why they won’t.
Urban Cowboy falls off its horse; The Shining is Stanley Kubrick’s horror odyssey; The Empire Strikes Back, but it’s no coup; Alfred Hitchcock takes the fortieth step.
Reporter
Weathering a year-long drouth in South Texas; Harlingen’s cute little, uh, body builder; adversaries in the bilingual education battle don’t speak the same language; Bastards from Hell terrorize Houston.