June 1981

May 31, 1981 — By Cyndy Severson

These gifts should activate the wanderlust in any recent graduate.

May 31, 1981 — By Suzanne Winckler

What’s behind this year’s rampant display of wildflowers? The birds and the bees, of course.

May 31, 1981 — By John Bloom

From its headquarters in the wilds of Dallas to remote jungle outposts all over the world, Wycliffe Bible Translators is defying bitter opposition and dedicating itself to speeding up the Second Coming.

May 31, 1981 — By Jan Reid

The stake is survival - for either the sheep and goat ranchers of West Texas or the smartest predator of all.

May 31, 1981 — By Michael Ennis

West of Forth Worth, General Dynamics builds the F-16, a good little fighter plane that could have been great if the Air Force brass had kept their hands off it.

May 31, 1981 — By W. L. Taitte

Conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart are two centuries apart, but their ideas about music are exactly the same.

May 31, 1981 — By William Martin

The millennium is nigh, according to some evangelists, and when Jesus returns, Texans will experience either rapture or hell and high water.

May 31, 1981 — By Gregory Curtis

Gaudy, drawling, filthy rich.

May 31, 1981 — By Dominique Browning

In Painted Dresses Shelby Hearon tries to plumb the depths of love, but her characters turn out to be too shallow.

May 31, 1981 — By Lawrence Wright

Thomas Thompson won his Blood and Money libel suit, but the trial left one question unanswered: how much of his imagination is a nonfiction writer allowed to use?

May 31, 1981 — By Prudence Mackintosh

Our Colorado skiing vacation thrilled the men in my life, but all it gave me was bruised feet and a battered ego.

May 31, 1981 — By C.W. Smith

The Fan is the story of a man whose adoration for an actress turns to hate, and the movie turns your stomach. Alan Alda takes a studiously liberated look at divorce among old married couples in The Four Seasons. Take This Job and Shove It is another workingman’s-hero movie; so far it’s the best of the bunch.

May 31, 1981 — By Jim Atkinson

Mandatory sentencing means every felon gets the same sentence for the same crime - and for the rest of us it means a lot of crimes that won’t happen.

May 31, 1981 — By Patricia Sharpe

About-face, inner space, and keeping pace.

May 31, 1981 — By Paul Burka

Farmers and oilmen fight over water; a Houston gold rush for TV licenses; houses multiply faster than people; security for brokers.

May 31, 1981 — By Texas Monthly

Fire and brimstone on the right, Observer on the left, guns under the bed.

May 31, 1981 — By Texas Monthly

Hard hats.

May 31, 1981 — By Texas Monthly

Kirk Crocker’s radiation nightmare; Texas International tries to swallow Continental Air Lines - and chokes; Panhandle farmers confront the M-X missile folly; can Houston have its park and oil wells, too?