March 1981
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Features
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Going Under
For a man and his daughter out for a pleasant day’s fishing, the first sign of danger was a man’s hat floating silently down the stream.
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Home Sweet Home, Good-bye
And hello to high prices, high interest rates, high rents, and a new low for the American dream.
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Make Friends With the Quin Tikis
Onstage, all happy lounge acts are alike; offstage, all unhappy lounge acts are unhappy in their own ways.
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Out in the West Texas Town of El Paso
What to eat, how to shop, and where to boogie in the most enchanting corner of Texas.
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Danger Zones
What they don’t teach you in defensive driving courses: the most dangerous highways in Texas.
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Speed Demons
State highway patrolmen hate the 55 mph speed limit almost as much as other Texas motorists do, and for better reasons.
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Columns
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Behind the Lines
Made In Japan
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Paper Cowboys
Southwest Fiction might make you think that the region is mostly metropolis and no mesquite. The Guadalupe Mountains of Texas hits a lot of high spots.
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Schmaltz Across Texas
On a soap opera sound stage in Brooklyn the state of Texas lives and loves.
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Cardinal Virtues
Lamar University’s hotshot basketball team makes lost of hoops, little hoopla.
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Somebody Turn on the Lights!
Monsters aren’t nearly as scary as the night they go bump in.
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Ambassadors of Jazz
The late Lester Young is a past president of jazz, and his music still holds sway. Albums by other musicians get votes of confidence, too.
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China Towns
In San Antonio, everything that glitters is in the Golden Palace, where the food is as gaudy as the décor. Austin’s OMei China gives you a zap on the mouth.
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Sins of the Fathers
Violence within the family tends not to be taken too seriously by the courts. But eventually that violence will burst loose to threaten us all.
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Mr. Nice Guy Takes the Baton
The San Antonio symphony is beleaguered. Conductor Lawrence Smith is well mannered. They’re both mediocre.
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Reporter
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Texas Monthly Reporter
Uncle Same wants Texas prison reform; Ma Bell wants your news dollar; Governor Bill wants Mexican workers; killer mosquitoes want you.
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Miscellany
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Touts
Burn, baby, burn
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State Secrets
Sex in the classifieds; looking out for farmer’s welfare; everybody wants to be land commissioner; what ever happened to the tax revolt?
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Roar of the Crowd
Aggies are more than the corps, fashion is more than couture, teaching is mostly a chore.
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Puzzle
Message parler?
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The Inside Story
A tale of fourteen cities.
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