The Strange Power of Fred Carrasco
He left a police department, a mayor, and fifty bodies in his wake.
He left a police department, a mayor, and fifty bodies in his wake.
What is it like to miss the sexual revolution (and some others) by a mere handful of years?
Should your child go to a private school; if so, which one?
The inventor’s wife is named Margarita, but the drink was not named for a woman.
What football does to its people.
Two questions are crucial: should your child go to private school; and if so, which one.
Enthusiastic railway passengers maintain that fast is not necessarily the same as best.
While you’re waiting at the depot, Amtrak bickers with Washington, railway moguls, and itself.
Separating the dancer from the dance in the world of strip tease.
What kind of man would establish a museum which exhibits a bottle of dust from the wings of model airplanes and 250,000 three cent stamps?
Owning a pickup is not, in itself, enough.
Four seldom visited areas of Texas prove to be proudly beautiful and almost inaccessible.
Boxing is the real school of hard knocks. James Helwig, the Texas Heavyweight Champion, hopes he’ll be able to graduate in time.
Staying alive day by day . . . by day.
Beneath the phony outer schmaltz of Jack Valenti one finds the real schmaltz of a true believer.
It’s easy to lock yourself out of your own home, but keeping someone else out is rather more difficult.
Once again a critical eye is cast on those irregularities along the skyline called buildings.
Choosing the best features of Texas newspapers is a thankless job, hard on the spirit, and difficult for all the wrong reasons.
Vibrating vertebrae is not a disease; it is either a cure or not a cure. Our reporter turned her back to the whole subject.
There it is, right there on the plate. Just where is that?
Witches are where you find them. But where is that?
Forget your Dallas cowboys and your Houston Astros. Texas’ real champions count birds once a year at freeport. They’re not bird watchers, they’re birders. And therein lies a tail.
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
Did the clean-cut knight get trapped by the Wall Street dragon? And did he, after all, have himself to blame?
Leaving Cheyenne, which may be Larry McMurtry’s best novel, is made into a miserable movie. This is how it happened.
One year after the Supreme Court decision we survey how hospitals and private citizens are responding to legalized abortion.
A rodeo is an anachronism, like javelin throwing: but its bumps, bruises, and brawls are real.
How do you find a folksy town of 7,500 people 20 years later in a sprawling city of 110,000?
Even though Wheatley High's last teamful of stars got snapped up by eager colleges, winning is such a habit there that they just might keep on doing it.
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.
A San Antonio patrolman tells what it is like on the job.
The Apparel Mart in Dallas clothes Middle America. Their merchandise may not win many fashion awards, but it sells, and sells, and sells.
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.
In Texas the bookies go where the action is and in Texas the action is with football.
Dallas and Fort Worth boosters may have pushed their cities into the 21st century when they opened the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport this September.
Our travel guide, in search of the perfect taco, wanders along the 1248 mile border between Texas and Mexico. He wines, dines, and occasionally sightsees.
When John Neely Bryan built his cabin he didn't know what would happen to Big D as it grew, or why it would happen. A. C. Greene searches through old photographs and records to give us the answer.
Those who enforce our narcotics laws often use the stuff themselves.
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.
Those Jesus Freaks are your children. But what's the colony like in Dallas?
From underwear to trenchcoats, everything you never knew about men's fashions answered.
Two women on a shopping trip in Dallas and San Antonio reveal the fashion secret rarely told--how to develop your own style.
Sam Corey runs a chain of massage parlors. He says they're all on the up and up.
Old Glory is a long way from Madison Avenue, and Bigun Bradley probably knew it.
In which Texas comes into the 20th century, barely.
A veteran hunter and guide tells how it's done.
Llano, Texas, is about to become the heart of our missile defense system.