Behind the Lines
The Viet Nam War was the second this country lost.
The Viet Nam War was the second this country lost.
We just rate them. You voted for them.
Those who laugh first at the Texas Legislature do not laugh last.
Spring cleaning in the house that Zale built.
Burning a candle a day keeps the hexes away.
Jimmy Carter’s energy program wants to bury the age of oil and gas whether it’s dead or not.
In which our author finds it’s one thing to be a genius; it’s another to be smart.
Every night at Ben Taub Hospital’s emergency room is a night of the living dead.
For years, liberals have been the biggest critics of Austin city government. What happened when the got the power to do something about it?
Those who haunt the singles bars aren’t always what they seem—namely, single.
Everybody makes mistakes, but mistakes in the medical profession leave scars on everybody.
South Texas has had a revolution, but itÃs not the one José Angel Guttiérrez planned.
The rodeo where it really doesn’t pay to win.
All this, and the Legislature wasn’t even in session.
These bureaucrats belong in a zoo.
Is it worth being a United States senator when you’re on the losing side all the time? Ask John Tower.
There are two things you should never see being made: sausage and legislation. All in all, we’d rather watch sausage.
In pursuit of the elusive billionaire’s final mystery: who’ll get his money?
A schizophrenic’s own story of his tour through asylums from Bellevue to Texas.
The new campaign financing law takes all the fun out of fund raising.
The Greenhouse is where the rich and the chic go to play I spa.
Is Barbara Jordan really worth all the fuss?
From poor black girl to presidential possibility, in ten not-so-easy lessons.
Why you shouldn’t lose any sleep over your congressman’s nocturnal habits.
. . .but back home? Never.
Can Texas Democrats find happiness? In New York, maybe—
PEOPLEThe red-hot rumor, blazing from mouth to mouth in Dallas recently, had longtime radio programming genius Gordon McLendon raising $2 million for a group of Dallas investors to buy WRR-AM, the city-owned, all-news station that’s up for sale. Not so, says son Bart McLendon, manager of McLendonowned KNUZ-FM in Dallas.
Did you know there’s more difference between Fudgsicles and Popsicles than the taste? The taxman does.
American ingenuity has produced the telephone, the airplane, and now the breast pillow.
This politician controls the purse strings of the richest city in Texas. And he’s ready for bigger things.
The Lord giveth the beach and the developer taketh away.
When Dad Joiner signed away all his oil leases to H.L. Hunt, all the cards weren’t on the table. Some were still underground.
What LBJ did best was wheel and deal. So what’s wrong with that?
How a doctor got hooked on drugs, and how he got off.
Is one man one vote just another numbers racket?
The weirdest student demonstration ever.
Pity the poor Vietnamese: so far from home, so close to Beaumont.
Politics, like fashion, is a fickle business.
Rating the Texas Congressmen from number one to, sigh, number twenty-two.