November 1988

Nov 1, 1988 — By Jan Jarboe Russell

Heloise, America’s best-known homemaker, has dirty little secret: she hates to clean house. If you hate it too, she’s convinced that you need her more than ever.

Nov 1, 1988 — By Tom Curtis

The resurrection of a former “see-through” office building. How a land developer diversified—into jaguars. And secrets of the “vultures” who buy up, fix up, and fill up troubled Houston apartments.

Nov 1, 1988 — By Michael Hilton

A lot stronger and more hospitable than barbed wire, this is one of those good fences that make good neighbors.

Nov 1, 1988 — By Al Reinert

Cool, clear, and pure, it’s the bounty of the Edwards Aquifer, and if something isn’t done to limit pumping by Hill Country farmers and a thirsty San Antonio, it may also be dry.

Nov 1, 1988 — By Jan Reid

Though the leaders of Mexico’s revolution all lived short and violent lives, a handful of those who rode with them have survived to a ripe old age in Texas.

Nov 1, 1988 — By Tom Curtis

An entrepreneur captures customers in public rest rooms. A high-tech plant moves from oil to medicine. Space and biomedical manufacturing are finally off the drawing boards. And a former union boss becomes a bingo mogul.

Nov 1, 1988 — By Tom Curtis

Engineer Saba Haregot’s love affair with Houston (it’s not just all those job offers). How natural gas is helping to reinflate the economy. And a shuttered plant that tempers oil pipe opens up.

Nov 1, 1988 — By Tom Curtis

Don’t break out the champagne yet. Sure, things are better, but there’s still a long way to go. And the main reason for the recovery is the market—Houston is a bargain.

Nov 1, 1988 — By Jerry Jeanmard

Godzilla lives! Just ask any Texas collector of Japanese action figures.

Nov 1, 1988 — By Jim Atkinson

When crack comes to a neighborhood, it infiltrates, it corrupts, and it destroys—and there is nothing the cops can do about it.

Nov 1, 1988 — By Gregory Curtis

Duked and Bushed.

Nov 1, 1988 — By Suzanne Winckler

Dan Jenkins’ latest takes a tough-cookie journalist out of a thirties movie and puts her into a chase through Depression-era Fort Worth; Sarah Glasscock populates her fictional Alpine with a cast of real characters.

Nov 1, 1988 — By Joe Nick Patoski

The Permian Panthers provide the best entertainment between Dallas and El Paso, and nobody enjoys the show more than Jerry Swindall.

Nov 1, 1988 — By Patricia Hart

Houston Lighting and Power’s purchase of a Canadian cable TV company may come as a shock to HL&P ratepayers.

Nov 1, 1988 — By Paul Burka

The worst school districts in Texas—and how they got that way; where have all the bankers gone?; why Dukakis fell beind in Texas.

Nov 1, 1988 — By Texas Monthly

Women, children, parents, teachers.

Nov 1, 1988 — By Alison Cook

Hieromania, the burning curiosity of glyphies; Post time in the race for Houston’s new gossip columnist; an unlikely car and an unlikelier trailer; the parking garage from hell.