SCARIEST MOVIE EVER?Austin movie makers Tobe Hooper and Kim Henkel have made what they hope is the classic horror thriller. Truly terrifying movies are rare indeed. The trick is not merely to shock by using music, gore, or weird beings, but to create an atmosphere of fear, a much harder
In the past people have made a pretty penny from initial offerings. No more.
One year after the Supreme Court decision we survey how hospitals and private citizens are responding to legalized abortion.
The Federal prison in Fort Worth is unique in more ways than one.
As long as you're cleaning up the environment, start with your own body.
The energy crisis has caused a crisis of nerves for the Chicken Littles of Wall Street.
Selling a herd of prime cattle can be tricky business. And it takes professionals to do it right.
Fires, murders, robberies, assaults, highway accidents: they happen every day in the city, and what happens every day is big news on San Antonio TV.
We give appropriate recognition to all the people and events that have put us in the state we’re in.
Securing the Perfect Babysitter isn't always possible, but there are some alternatives.
WELL, I’LL BE A DIRTY BIRDThe two Kids Kounty stores in Houston (think of the confusion had they been named Cids County) are the result of an original merchandising idea of the Lachman Rose Company. The stores are large windowless boxes each containing about 34,000 square feet of floor space
IBM and friends could soon be steping down from their pedestals.
THE DECLINE AND FALL OF LUNAR ROYALTYIT WASN’T EXACTLY ONE GIANT step for womankind, but from all reports this was one exploration NASA’s Director Christopher Columbus Kraft found not worth smiling about. Odds are that 1973’s Lunar Landing Festival Beauty Contest was not only the first such endeavor by NASA’s
A San Antonio patrolman tells what it is like on the job.
A fat 15-year-old inaugurated 1000 years of peace in Houston this fall. Don't look now, but the people you went to college with may be following him.
When we write a constitution for the first time in almost 100 years, everyone wants a piece of the pie. In spite of it all, the new draft turned out to be an improvement. Now it's the legislature's turn.
Shaping up and shelling out at Texas Health Spas.
When inflation hits the international scene the gnomes of Zurich and the goldbugs start racing for the ingots. But how smart an investment is gold these days?
The toys your children play with might make them one of the 19,000 dead or 40,000 crippled by playthings this year.
Dallas and Fort Worth boosters may have pushed their cities into the 21st century when they opened the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport this September.
TEXAS ON THE POTOMACTHE TOSTADAS WERE (LET’S BE honest now) kind of stale, and the chile con queso was soggy, but, well what the hell, it sure was good to find some real Tex-Mex food.Purists could grumble if they wanted to and point out that the frijoles were little more
RETURN OF THE OLD PUCKERTHE ASTRODOME HAS REALLY OUTDONE itself. They had the help, though, of Hollywood press agentry and one of the bigger mouths in professional sports, so the Dome can’t take all the credit. Irregardless of culpability, it was an impressive show, that King-Riggs tennis match, and it
Our well meaning volunteer other meets up with some hard-nosed realists in the public schools.
Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother wants to tell the world how she got out from under Jackie’s shadow.
A law firm of almost 200 attorneys becomes an institution with massive power and life of its own. Three such firms are in Texas, including two of the four largest in the U.S. We open them, for the first time, to the public.
MAYBE BABYABOUT THREE YEARS AGO, DR. Joseph Goldzieher, a researcher at San Antonio’s Southwest Foundation for Research and Education, set out to determine if numerous side effects reported by women using oral contraceptives might be psychological in origin.He recruited 76 women to use as a control group, some of whom
How to keep your options, stock that is, open during Phase IV.
CARRASCO REVISITED(IN AUGUST,TEXAS MONTHLY PUBLISHED an account of drug trafficking between Mexico and San Antonio. Much of that article concerned the activities of Fred Carrasco, at that time at large. Since then, he has been apprehended. Our correspondents sent us this account of his capture.)Around midnight July 22 a portly,
Institutions give the little guy the squeeze.
Sam Corey runs a chain of massage parlors. He says they're all on the up and up.
In which Texas comes into the 20th century, barely.
Llano, Texas, is about to become the heart of our missile defense system.
There is a right way and a wrong way, whether eating grilled cheese or running for president.
THE SPACEMAN’S LAST GASPCRAIG RASPBERRY IS NINE YEARS OLD and strikingly reminiscent of Mr. Peabody’s pet boy Sherman on the old Bullwinkle show, down to an air of scientific detachment which seems to be a trait he shares with his fellow citizens of Aurora, Texas, of whom there are not
Take 3 million acres, add politicians, lumber companies and Time, Inc., and what have you got? A very small park, or no park at all.
Competition was fierce and the winners in both categories are outstanding.
TUBAL LIBATIONSFORMALS WORN BRALESS. SMILES GOING the full count. ‘Hair done’ and flown in for the occasion. Rosalind Russell doing an inspired Bert Parks. What more could a mother of four or a young career girl or a grandma want? All of us females were glued to the TV to
These veterans of endless smoke-filled rooms and committee sessions do more to shape state government than most elected officials. They're not all bad, but they're not all good, either.
How to invest when the market gets wild.
Condominiums are springing up all over Texas. It’s a good concept, but you need to know what you're doing.
THE SIN OF AUSTININ AUSTIN RECENTLY, DURING A public hearing on skinnydipping in Lake Travis, local resident Louis Steinbach testified to attentive city councilmen: “God has the power to destroy this city for its sin…and officials had better realize it.” We do not want to appear soft on sin, but
Although the environmentalists won at the polls, the promoters of the nation's largest public works project may still turn the tide.
THE GETAWAY THAT DIDN’T LASTON A COOL EVENING IN late spring, Mark Jones and Francisco Perez entered Joseph’s Foodliner, a small market in northwest San Antonio specializing in homemade egg rolls (4 for a dollar) and fresh Chinese snow peas. Young, longhaired, bearded, they had apparently charted an ambitious career
Right here in Austin and right up there in Washington, our men who stand for office have been messin' around.
The New Doctors refuse to take old medicine.
Some last words, reverent and irreverent, like Lyndon himself.
A conversation about closed-end funds with a man who should know.
A look at both sides of the 13-year skirmish over the North Expressway.
How to choose your veterinarian-and your pet's.
Look out, offshore operators, they're headed your way!