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Sole Brothers

Can the legislature’s black caucus hang together?

The Best Show in Town

Here’s the plot for the legislature’s 140-day run, opening soon.

A Place in the Sun

Can Texas still make it as a nation? Can Dolph Briscoe make it as a sheik?

Is Texas Obsolete?

The question is not so hard; it’s the answers that are the problem.

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The Men with Bentsen’s Ear

It’s going to take more than one man to run the country.

The Unveiling of Lloyd Bentsen

The White House is the only challenge left.

Open and Shut

This is a free country. Isn’t it?

There’s No Business like Snow Business

There’s money in them there hills.

The Unmaking of a President

The University of Texas is playing the same old game—politics.

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The First Hurrah

The confessions of the second man in a two-man race.

The Fastest Gun in the West

Being a straight shooter is its own reward.

Barons of the Court

Need a criminal lawyer? Here are the biggest names in the state.

Warren Burnett for the Defense

He may have pleased the court, but what about himself?

The Wildcatter’s Wildcatter

Glenn McCarthy still roars like a lion.

The Lonely Search for Oil

Of doodlebugs, boll weevils, rockhounds, and wildcatters.

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Bursting the Bubble

Examining the Supreme Court’s decision on Nixon’s tapes.

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The Politics of Outsiders

The Raza Unida party still isn‘t sure whether it wants to hurt the Democrats or help itself.

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Waiting for the Train

While you’re waiting at the depot, Amtrak bickers with Washington, railway moguls, and itself.

Pappy’s Girls

Separating the dancer from the dance in the world of strip tease.

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The Peter Out Principle

The Texas GOP cranks down for November elections.

Six West

Staying alive day by day . . . by day.

Why Jack Valenti Still Sleeps Soundly

Beneath the phony outer schmaltz of Jack Valenti one finds the real schmaltz of a true believer.

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A Mighty Fortress is Our Home

It’s easy to lock yourself out of your own home, but keeping someone else out is rather more difficult.

Deadline in Dallas

One Dallas paper clings tightly to tradition while the other, with a new editor, looks for something to cling to of its own.

Consumer Aid for Fort Worth

This month’s H. Rap Brown “Power to the People” award is shared by the Fort Worth Junior Bar and the Council of Jewish Women for making it possible, through donations, for Tarrant County to have one of Attorney General John Hill’s regional consumer protection offices.The funds will pay for office

Connally Stumps Ohio

From former Dallas Times Herald reporter Tracey Smith comes this report of former governor John Connally on the banquet circuit in Bowling Green, Ohio. Smith is a Kiplinger Journalism Fellow at Ohio State University.Like other converts to a new faith, John B. Connally has become rabidly dogmatic in professing allegiance

Trolleys for Austin

Austin, a city of great natural beauty, with the Colorado River gliding by south of downtown and the pleasing congruence of hills and lakes flanking its west side, has a unique chance to beautify and humanize its central business district.Led by architect David Graeber, the East Sixth Conservation Society is

Folk Medicine for Fort Worth

True to its own particular, relaxed style of life, Fort Worth was a late participant in the city festival field. For years, Tyler has held its Rose Festival; San Antonio, its Fiesta; El Paso, its Charro Days, and Austin, its Aqua Festival. Houston and Dallas have long since become too

Dallas Radio Goes Public

Beginning at the end of May or early June, Dallasites will have a new and unique radio station. KERA-FM, 90.1 on the dial, will be the city’s first public radio outlet and will provide a welcome relief from the inane, shrill banter of jingles and jive from the top-40 jocks

NBC Moves Uptown

Now that the Skylab space project is finished, NBC has moved from its cubicle at the Nassau Motor Hotel across from NASA to new offices at 4615 Southwest Freeway. They are only ten minutes from their affiliate station, KPRC-TV, where they can use Channel 2’s nine projectors, eight videotape machines,

The Avalon Drug Store

On a Saturday morning in January, 1971, three days before the inauguration of Governor Preston Smith and Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, the then-Assistant US Attorney Theo Pinson strolled into Houston’s Avalon Drug Store after a toot on the town, a bit disheveled but still resplendent in his midnight blue tuxedo,

Dustin’ Off The Stetson

It takes slant-heeled boots and a strong jaw to campaign in West Texas; a Ph.D. probably doesn’t help.

Going For Brokers

It costs money to make money, nut how are brokers commissions affecting the private investor’ss chances of turning a profit?

Spinal Strategists

Vibrating vertebrae is not a disease; it is either a cure or not a cure. Our reporter turned her back to the whole subject.

Witch-Hunt

Witches are where you find them. But where is that?

How First National Passed Republic

The biggest Texas banks are up to their same old game—getting bigger.

Bob and George Go to Washington or The Post-Watergate Scramble

The GOP and Democratic chairmen are both from Texas. Right there the similarity ends, or begins, no, ends.

Ross Perot: A Hero for Our Time

I see Ross Perot as a throwback, a distinct cousin to two types of 19th century mythical American heroes. In his deeds, Perot is as gargantuan—as wonderful and awful and ridiculous—as Davy Crockett. In his idealisms, Perot would fashion himself, and the rest of us, after one of the proper

Method Against Madness

What you eat affects the way you think; and what you think affects the way you eat.

Come Back, Little Trader

Senator Bentsen is proposing legislation to end the two-tiered market. It might work; then again the market might take care of itself.

Ambush on Wall Street

Did the clean-cut knight get trapped by the Wall Street dragon? And did he, after all, have himself to blame?

And Father Makes Three

Daddies can’t have babies, but they can sure help their wives. This is a guide to where and how.