Miscellany

Puzzle

Letter perfect.

Touts

Go with the flow; made in the shade.

State Secrets

Briscoe’s beef; new wave health care; a bright idea for Houston Lighting & Power; the case of the lagging law school.

Roar of the Crowd

Behind bars.

Puzzle

Seeing spots.

Touts

Hit the deck, shoot the breeze.

State Secrets

Big banks have interest in Delaware - but so far no principle; a price-fixing suit puts realtors out of commission; why some teachers don’t deserve a pay raise; a new kingmaker emerges in South Texas.

Roar of the Crowd

Puzzle

Stoned at home.

Touts

Of loaves and fishes.

State Secrets

TV’s path to riches for Robert Caro’s The Path to Power; a big Texas howdy to PCBs; Reagan and Castro’s map wars; another prison reform idea turns sour.

Roar of the Crowd

Gun-shy Baptists, isolated inmates, poor doctors.

Puzzle

Cell division.

Touts

Miniature madness.

State Secrets

Southwest Airlines’ California gamble pays off - and Texans do the paying: update from Gibgate; why Bellaire is not Park Place; a truly dumb idea from UT.

Roar of the Crowd

Taking lives and saving lives.

Puzzle

Measure for measure.

Touts

What’s red and black and read all over?

State Secrets

Wright is wrong in the Houston mayor’s race; the medical establishment beats the state budget crunch; capital punishment faces death by bureaucracy; will defense put John Tower on the defensive?

Roar of the Crowd

No oil in Israel, no crown for the congressman, no Coke at the Last Supper.

Puzzle

Go play in the traffic.

State Secrets

Treasure hunters want state booty; Republicans aren’t so hot about Phil Gramm; there’s hope for Texans with money in Mexico; Texas newspapers worry about USA Today.

Touts

Sing along, turn around, dip in.

Roar of the Crowd

End of the line for a cop, a coach, quilters, and the Confederate Air Force.

Puzzle

Paper tigers.

Touts

Animal magnetism.

State Secrets

One giant step for wives; one small step for John Glenn; why oilmen will never rule the world; why the new Texas congressmen won’t either.

Roar of the Crowd

Banned in the schools, school kids in the band.

Puzzle

A slice of life.

State Secrets

Brown & Root looks for a way out; Mark White looks for a way in; who’s number one at UT; the Court of Criminal Appeals blows another one.

Roar of the Crowd

Pickens, pesos, and notes from the fringe.

State Secrets

Making a mountain out of a Greenhill; Dallas versus Houston in the governor’s race; Post time at the Chronicle; the Yankees are after our oil money again.

Roar of the Crowd

Standard bearers, sentence parers, blue wayfarers.

State Secrets

West Texas' Indian motels; dueling fundraisers; a not-so-sweet deal; adventures in the legal trade.

Roar of the Crowd

Sticks and bones.

State Secrets

Taller-than-thou in Houston; Bullock and his feelings; the fate of the Boll Weevils; yellow journalism in Dallas.

State Secrets

Heads-up journalism; expensive mileage; the balkanization of the Sunbelt; wars in the oil patch.

Roar of the Crowd

State Secrets

Slums for sale, hardball at the Herald; bye-bye, Nueces Bay; hello, mudslinging.

Roar of the Crowd

Lies and whispers.

State Secrets

Detroit attacks Houston; UT defends agains the NCAA; Texas loses 59 parks to Reaganomics; voter apathy—who cares?

Roar of the Crowd

All’s Farrah; judges’ jury.

State Secrets

A new market for unstable oil; Colorado joins the hate-Texas club; Houston lawyers invade Dallas; a Republican litmus test.

State Secrets

The New Federalism gets the old raspberry; will Jim Baker run the country or the bank?; a political test for Texas labor; a law Houston’s new police chief would love to break.

Roar of the Crowd

Hug the baby; buggy burners

State Secrets

Drilling for oil on hallowed ground; nannies invade Dallas; McKnight of the living dead; does the Voting Rights Act really help Mexican Americans?

Roar of the Crowd

Steers charge, Wildcats retreat, scorpions to eat.

State Secrets

Selling the streets of Laredo; the next big oil play; the bar breaks up over a Supreme Court race; it’s true what they say about office Christmas parties.

Roar of the Crowd

Over the river and through the swamp.

Touts

Between a rock and an art place.