Being Texan
November 1, 1987
Head, Heels, and Heart
For team ropers on the All-Girl circuit, the true reward is the happiness of pursuit.
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Business
October 1, 1987
Paradise Lost
Las Colinas was supposed to be Can-Do City. So why couldn’t it?
Being Texan
October 1, 1987
The Double Life of Finis Crutchfield
The bishop denied until the end that he got AIDS from homosexual contact. But the furor that resulted from his death has opened the door on his life as a gay man.
Style & Design
September 1, 1987
The Fantasy World of Victor Costa
Texas’ most famous dress designer dreamed up the perfect evening gown for the average American woman—it’s frilly, it’s flashy, and it’s a $300 copy of a $15,000 Paris original.
News & Politics
August 31, 1987
Guilty Until Proven Innocent
In 1980 a white girl was raped and murdered at Conroe High School, and the police quickly arrested a black janitorial supervisor. Now it looks as if the case wasn’t so open and shut after all.
Business
August 1, 1987
Cities in Bondage
When eighty-year-old Decker Jackson gives financial advice to Texas public officials, nothing in life is certain but debt and taxes.
Health
August 1, 1987
The Booming Business of AIDS
For some entrepreneurs, the dark cloud of AIDS has proved to have a silver lining
Business
August 1, 1987
The Sleaziest Man in Texas
The rich and eccentric heir to a rich and eccentric Galveston family, Shearn Moody, Jr., craved an empire all his own. But his lack of self-restraint cost him his bank, his insurance company, his fortune, and now, perhaps, his freedom.
Sports
July 1, 1987
Donald Curry vs. the World
All boxers are wary in the ring, where defeat is only a well-placed punch away. But Donald Curry knows that the real terrors of boxing lie beyond the ropes.
Being Texan
July 1, 1987
I’ve Been Rich and I’ve Been Poor
The fond memories and hard times of a postboom oil heiress.
True Crime
July 1, 1987
Drug Lord
There are three secrets to Miguel Felix Gallardo’s multimillion-dollar empire of drugs and power. Corruption, corruption, and corruption.
Music
June 1, 1987
Culture Club
Once San Antonio’s elite took pride in their support of the city’s fine symphony. When the cream of that elite, the Symphony Society board, abruptly canceled the upcoming season, it was time for some soul-searching
Being Texan
June 1, 1987
The Jeffrey Show
Heads turn when he passes. He’s on half of Houston’s A-party list. Rock singer? Investment banker? Nope. Meet Father Jeffrey Walker, Episcopal priest.
Business
June 1, 1987
The Party’s Over
In the early eighties, some Dallas savings and loans reaped profits in real estate investments while land was flipped, appraisals were inflated, and property was developed. Now the land deals have flopped, property values are deflated, and there are empty buildings all over town. And some S&Ls are broke
News & Politics
June 1, 1987
The No Decade
Like it or not, it’s time to start behaving yourself.
Travel & Outdoors
May 1, 1987
All Aboard for Copper Canyon
Try North America’s best travel bargain—the Copper Canyon train ride. For $9 you can see Indians who run down deer on foot, Mennonites who speak German, and the most spectacular scenery in Mexico.
Politics & Policy
May 1, 1987
Blind Justice
Should a judge’s friendships survive his election to the Supreme Court of Texas?
Music
May 1, 1987
Every Good Boy Does Fine
In the late seventies, celebrated pianist Van Cliburn inexplicably disappeared from public life. No tortured artist in hiding, Cliburn is having the time of his life sitting around his Fort Worth mansion in his bathrobe.
True Crime
May 1, 1987
The Longest Ride of His Life
When Randall Adams was sentenced to death ten years ago, the Dallas community thought a cop killing had been put to rest. But it hasn’t.
Politics & Policy
April 1, 1987
High Noon at the Capitol
The biggest legislative bloodbath in 31 years is shaping up between Clements and Hobby. At stake: not only the state’s education budget but the economic and political future of Texas as well.
Being Texan
April 1, 1987
The Man Who Understands Horses
Buster Welch’s success as a cutting horse trainer is based on a simple observation: when you insult a horse’s intelligence, you hurt his feelings.
Style & Design
March 1, 1987
The Inside Story
A new breed of home-delivery specialists will bring everything from dinner for eight to a masseur to a dog trainer to your door. Here are more than a hundred to try.
True Crime
March 1, 1987
My Sister Is Missing
Had she joined some cause? Was it suicide? Or had she wanted to disappear? After months of searching, I found the answer.
Business
March 1, 1987
Top Gun
Texas Air chief Frank Lorenzo took an airline with no profits and limited prospects and built it into the country’s largest. How? By betting like the sky’s the limit.
Business
February 1, 1987
ONE Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Will deprivation, humiliation, and confrontation lead the way to a better, more confident you? A new self-help craze sweeping Texas wants you to think so.
Border & Immigration
February 1, 1987
The Prophets
The border’s self-appointed problem solvers promise new industry, more jobs, and better schools. So why won’t anyone listen to them?
Border & Immigration
February 1, 1987
Madonna of the Maquiladora
While U.S. businessmen and Mexican bureaucrats see her as the answer to their economic prayers, factory worker Graciela Fernández just tries to get by—on about 66 cents an hour.
Border & Immigration
February 1, 1987
The Last of the Border Lords
In his dream to create a dynastic empire along the Rio Grande, Chito Longoria went against the wishes of his family and the values of his native land.
Texas History
February 1, 1987
The Empress of Fort Worth
Anne Bass married one of the richest men in America. With his money and her ambition she became an important cultural force in Fort Worth and New York. Life was perfect. Then her husband left her.
True Crime
January 1, 1987
Total Hit
Nobody could stop San Antonio’s killer cop—except another cop.
Politics & Policy
December 1, 1986
The Wright House
For the first time since Sam Rayburn’s day, the Speaker of the House will be a Texan. And if Jim Wright of Fort Worth is to be successful, he’ll have to remember what Rayburn taught him.
Business
December 1, 1986
Making It in the Bust
At a time when Texas seems to have lost its gift for creating fortunes, there has emerged a group of entrepreneurs who are making money by catering to the needs of people who are going broke.
Business
December 1, 1986
Against the Grain
One school of thought holds that when the economy is in a nosedive, that’s the time to go into business. At least that’s what a farmer, an oilman, a developer, and a banker believe.
Business
December 1, 1986
Advice From the Experts
We gave a bunch of smart Texans $50,000. (Okay, we didn’t really, we just said we did.) The money comes with these strings attached: it has to be invested in Texas now, and the investments have to pay off by 1996.
Politics & Policy
October 1, 1986
The Strange Case of Mark White
The governor has a good record, good ideas, and good intentions. So why is he in danger of losing his job to a man he already beat once?.
Business
October 1, 1986
Going for Broke
In boom times, John Connally and Ben Barnes used their political magic to build a sprawling real estate empire. Now they’re in a desperate struggle to keep themselves afloat.
News & Politics
September 30, 1986
Where NASA Went Wrong
The seeds of the Challenger disaster were sowed long ago, in the space agency’s conflict between its ideals and its politics.
Politics & Policy
September 1, 1986
Vote for Me, Por Favor. Now Let’s Eat
Mix election time, South Texas, and barbecue, and you get the pachanga circuit, where politics and barbecue are served with equal reverence.
Health
September 1, 1986
The Faulty Cure
Houston is famous for medical cures. But when British rock star Ronnie Lane came to town with a crippling disease and $1 million for research, all he got was crippling legal problems.
Sports
September 1, 1986
The Cowboys, the Indian, and the Computer That Fumbled
The most important new addition to the Dallas Cowboys is a veteran from the team’s early years —computer genius Salam Qureishi.
Travel & Outdoors
September 1, 1986
Wide Open Spaces
The Chihuahuan Desert is a place of extremes, where the visitor not only observes but participates in the struggle for life and death.
Business
August 1, 1986
Free Enterprise U.
Let’s hear it for Dallas’ Northwood Institute, where entrepreneurialism is second only to high society fundraising.
Politics & Policy
August 1, 1986
Mack Wallace, Railroad Commissioner, Wants to Save the World
Tapped by destiny, one man in Austin is forging an unlikely alliance between Texas oilmen and the friends of Israel.
True Crime
July 31, 1986
The Madman on the Tower
In a ninety-minute reign of terror, gunshots rang out that still echo in the history of Texas.
Business
July 1, 1986
Mining the Moon, Selling the Stars
Their business may read like a sci-fi script, but these aging astronauts, former Nasa engineers, technocrats, and high-risk junkies are serious about selling space.
Border & Immigration
July 1, 1986
No-Man’s-Land
To Texans, it’s the border. To Mexicans, it’s la frontera. It’s a hot, dazzling world where cultures clash and you’re never sure just where you stand.
Food & Drink
July 1, 1986
Eat at Junior’s
Proprietors of some of Texas’ priciest restaurants are spinning off more-economical eateries that are giving the originals a run for the money.
Hunting & Fishing
July 1, 1986
Man to Man
The son’s ultimate selfishness is to see his father only as his father—not as a man. But on our first fishing trip in 25 years, I began to see my father—and myself—as the grown men we’d become.
Politics & Policy
June 1, 1986
Unionbusters
Hank Milam was a businessman with $20,000 in equipment and a firm faith in the rules of the game.He took on the union that had ruled the Houston docks for fifty years and beat it on its own turf.
Politics & Policy
June 1, 1986
Hate Thy Neighbor
A look at Houston’s Meyerland, Dallas’ Munger Place, El Paso’s Sunset Heights, and Austin’s Hyde Park shows that few fights get the blood boiling like a good fight with a neighbor.