True Crime
April 30, 1979
How Cullen Davis Beat the Rap
It wasn’t easy and it wasn’t cheap. But was it justice?
Cover Story
Health
April 1, 1979
Super Medicine
At the Texas Medical Center the best hospitals, doctors, researchers, and medical technology anywhere in the world have combined to transform doctors from healers into superstars.
News & Politics
February 1, 1979
Only the Strong Survive
“There are two things to remember about the ghetto that is Houston’s Fifth Ward. One, evil usually triumphs over good. Two, in spite of that, most of its residents retain a goodness that proves indestructible.”
Bum Steers
January 1, 1979
1979 Bum Steer Awards
A shameless selection of shames, shenanigans, subterfuges, spoofs, smokescreens, and saltimbancos Texans suffered through in ‘78.
Energy
December 1, 1978
So You Want to Be Chairman of Exxon?
How the world’s largest corporation decides who will make it to the top—and who won’t.
Food & Drink
November 1, 1978
I Still Hate Chili
Fess up now. In your heart of hearts, don’t you hate it, too?
News & Politics
September 1, 1978
O Freeway, My Freeway
Help! I’m a prisoner on the freeway and can’t get off.
True Crime
July 31, 1978
Death of a Ranger
Bob Doherty was a Texas ranger who believed in the myth of the Old West; Greg Ott was a college dope dealer, a child of the sixties. When they met, it destroyed both their lives.
Being Texan
July 1, 1978
Brave New Vacancies
Give us your tired and freezing Yankees, your studious Arabs, your ambitious young hustlers just blown into town, and we will rent them one bedroom and a bath for $215.
Travel & Outdoors
June 1, 1978
Happy Trails to You
Why let Roy Rogers have all the fun? Waltz across Texas this summer along these eleven good-time trails.
Style & Design
May 1, 1978
Expensive People
At the top, a good family helps, clothes help, manners help, the right friends help, but nothing helps like money.
Business
April 1, 1978
Daddy’s Money
The feuding over H. L. Hunt’s vast fortune is a family affair, and what a family!
Being Texan
March 1, 1978
The Power and the Glory of Billy Graham
How a towheaded kid from North Carolina became God’s best salesman.
Bum Steers
January 1, 1978
1978 Bum Steer Awards
Last year’s biggest bloopers, bleepers, blunders, bungles, boo-boos, bad breaks, bobbles, bevues, balks, and Briscoeisms.
Texana
November 20, 1977
The Last Frontier
The pioneers who came to tame the West met their match in the land of ‘Giant.’
Sports
September 30, 1977
The Joy of Cheerleading
One week with a thousand cheerleaders.
News & Politics
August 31, 1977
Support Your Local Police
If you ever go to Houston, you’d better walk right. You’d better not gamble, and you’d better not fight.
News & Politics
July 31, 1977
The Informer
The secret life of the man who tells the Man.
Politics & Policy
June 30, 1977
1977: The Ten Best and Ten Worst Legislators
We just rate them. You voted for them.
Food & Drink
May 31, 1977
From Mexico With Love
Out of the Texas melting pot comes a food hot enough to melt anything.
Parks & Recs
April 1, 1977
Forgotten Places
Of canyons, creeks, and craters: the Big Bend as few have seen it.
True Crime
March 1, 1977
Rich Man, Dead Man
Profile of a society murder and the woman who lived to tell about it.
Being Texan
February 1, 1977
The Baptists Want You!
Don’t take this wrong, but they’ve hired Eldridge Cleaver to get you.
Texas History
January 1, 1977
How to Be Southern
Southwestern is out, Southern is in. Here’s how to renew our charter membership.
Arts & Entertainment
December 1, 1976
Candy
The life and times of Candy Barr—the woman who made headlines by always being in the wrong place at the right time.
Travel & Outdoors
November 1, 1976
Why Texans Make Lousy Gamblers
This information may come as news to you, but casino owners have been banking on it for years.
Politics & Policy
September 30, 1976
The Making of Barbara Jordan
From poor black girl to presidential possibility, in ten not-so-easy lessons.
True Crime
August 31, 1976
Busting Out of Mexico
Two self-styled Texas soldiers of fortune engineered one of the more bizarre jailbreaks in history. Here’s how it happened.
Music
July 31, 1976
Bringing It All Back Home
Nashville inspired Willie Nelson—to leave.
Best Thing in Texas
June 30, 1976
The Best of Texas
You may disagree, but we know we’re right.
Border & Immigration
May 31, 1976
The Newest Americans
Pity the poor Vietnamese: so far from home, so close to Beaumont.
Politics & Policy
April 1, 1976
The Most Powerful Texans
You can’t tell the players without a scorecard.
Health
March 1, 1976
The New Facts of Life
Is doing what comes naturally good enough these days?
Bum Steers
February 1, 1976
The 1976 Bum Steer Awards
We spotlight the follies and foibles of our state that will go down in history—way down.
Business
December 1, 1975
The Great Airline War
Will Texas International Airlines's “whiz kids” fizzle?! Will sexy Southwest conquer all?! Will Braniff lose its routes?!
Texas History
November 1, 1975
Who Was Jack Ruby?
If you thought you knew, you were probably wrong.
Being Texan
September 30, 1975
In Search of the Modern Cowboy
In today‘s tame, tame West, the cowboy seldom rides a horse and never carries a gun, but the cattle business is bigger than ever.
News & Politics
July 31, 1975
The Last Aggie Joke
Behold the miracles at College Station!
Best and Worst Legislators
June 30, 1975
1975: The Ten Best and (Sigh)…The Ten Worst Legislators
Guess which list had the most competition.
Being Texan
May 31, 1975
Retreat from Liberation
A different sort of women’s movement has this basic belief: give in and ye shall receive.
Energy
April 30, 1975
Power Politics
How Coastal State Gas pulled the plug on the Texas consumer.
Business
March 31, 1975
The Most Dangerous Airports in Texas
Pray now, fly later.
News & Politics
February 28, 1975
Pomp and Circumstance
The private life of a public high school.
Bum Steers
February 1, 1975
The 1975 Bum Steer Awards
Last year’s disreputable moments, lowest jinks, outrageous events, and preposterous personalities.
Texas History
January 1, 1975
Divide and Conquer
Five states are better than one, when they’re all named Texas.
Politics & Policy
December 1, 1974
The Unveiling of Lloyd Bentsen
The White House is the only challenge left.
Energy
November 1, 1974
The Lonely Search for Oil
Of doodlebugs, boll weevils, rockhounds, and wildcatters.
Style & Design
September 30, 1974
The Sweet Smile of Success
In some cases beauty is not even skin deep.
Sports
August 31, 1974
The Decline and Fall of the Southwest Conference
When was the last time you went to an SMU-Baylor game?
Being Texan
July 31, 1974
Redneck!
Being a Redneck is a lot of things, but it ain’t fun and it ain’t easy.