October 1979 Issue
Features

Cutups
Can’t hull a strawberry? Can’t boil an egg? Can’t wash leafy vegetables? Relax. Help is on the way.

A Delicate Balance
Who turned off the melting pot? Vietnamese and Texans fight on the coast.

Columns
It’s a Lulu!
Even incomplete, Lulu was a great opera. Now it’s finished, and Santa Fe Opera got the stage the coveted U.S. premiere.
The Spoils of War
ëTis the season for plays about the Viet Nam War. Louisiana’s Huey P. Long is captured (almost) by Texans.
A Joyful Noise
At St. Patrick’s in San Antonio they sing and dance—during mass. At Lakewood Assembly of God in Dallas they sing and sing and sing . . .
The Right Wings
In his new book Tom Wolfe poses this question: were the Mercury astronauts men or monkeys? Thomas Thompson changes his journalistic setting from Houston to the far East to produce a book about an astonishing criminal.
After the Fall
Nicaragua’s new junta may discover it’s easier to depose a dictator than to rebuild a ravaged country.
This Is The Way The Apocalypse Ends . . .
Coppola’s multimillion-dollar labor of love is finally finished. We think.
Miscellany
State Secrets
How will Christo wrap up his trip to Texas?; pooh-poohing Three mile Island; the greatest train robbery of all; shake-up at Houston’s city hall.
Reporter
Texas Monthly Reporter
South Padre defiled—and you were there; the joy of six hundred maniacal flute players; Dallas’ love-hate affair with Fair Park.
Biz

The Man Who Built River Oaks
Architect John Staub, the forgotten genius of River Oaks, transformed a few nondescript Houston streets into Millionaires’ Row.