Politics & Policy
March 1, 1979
Have Guns, Will Travel
Do you want a rare antique muzzle-loader or a holdup pistol that can’t be traced? You can find them both at a gun show.
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Energy
March 1, 1979
Psst . . . Have I Got a Deal for You!
Oil is a slippery business.
Being Texan
March 1, 1979
Sisters
An album of female kinship.
News & Politics
February 1, 1979
Hotel Detective
He knows the secrets behind closed doors.
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1979
Six Crises
It will be up to the 66th Legislature to solve these problems, and we’ll have to live with the solutions.
Texas History
January 1, 1979
In Search of La Salle
The riddle of the French explorer lies buried beneath the Gulf of Mexico, but what is it, where is it, and why, oh why, are we looking for it?
News & Politics
December 1, 1978
Hard Time
Ellis prison houses 2400 dangerous criminals, and it’s the safest place to live in Texas.
Energy
December 1, 1978
The Friends of Cloyce Box
With friends like these, Box’s company didn’t need enemies.
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.
Style & Design
November 1, 1978
A Country Christmas
Holiday gift ideas with a true rustic flavor.
Health
October 1, 1978
I Can’t Do It!
Some kids may fail at school and it’s not their fault.
News & Politics
October 1, 1978
A Season in Hell
A few years ago guards ran the Rusk State Hospital for the criminally insane. Now sociopathic criminals rule the wards.
Business
October 1, 1978
The Last of the Great Ladies
Oveta Culp Hobby has gone from a country town to a position of power and wealth. What she hasn’t done will also be her legacy.
Energy
October 1, 1978
Working the Rigs
Show us the hardest working man in Texas and we’ll show you a roughneck.
News & Politics
September 1, 1978
O Freeway, My Freeway
Help! I’m a prisoner on the freeway and can’t get off.
Travel & Outdoors
September 1, 1978
Stuck on Cactus
Making a few points about our favorite all-American plant.
Being Texan
September 1, 1978
The Deadliest Sin
Confessions of a bridge nut.
Energy
August 1, 1978
Labor Pains
Second-generation refinery workers don’t believe in politicians or corporations and some of them don’t believe in unions. The question is, do they believe in strikes?
Travel & Outdoors
August 1, 1978
Barton Springs Eternal
What was once a mere rural spring is now a crowded, languorous, bare-skinned utopia.
Business
August 1, 1978
Trouble in Paradise
Resort hotels and luxury condominiums line the shore of South Padre, yet foot by foot, day by day, the island is washing away.
Food & Drink
August 1, 1978
A Peach of a Deal
Texas is cattle, oil, Stetsons, peaches, branding irons . . . peaches?
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.
Country Notes
July 31, 1978
The Loser
When another farmer goes broke his neighbors thank God it wasn’t them; then they wonder when their turn is coming.
Being Texan
July 1, 1978
The Last Sister
Modern nuns have left the convent and entered the world. If they don’t like what they find, can they go home again?
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.
Being Texan
July 1, 1978
You Can See By My Outfit That I Am a Cowboy
When this young man decided to go West, he made it as far as a dude ranch in Bandera.
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.
Music
May 1, 1978
Little Joe
Amid blaring trumpets, raised fists, bottles of beer, and a cheering mob stands the king of Saturday night.
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.
Style & Design
May 1, 1978
Cabin Fever
Years ago, kids used to play pioneer with Lincoln Logs. Today grown-ups are playing pioneer—only with real log cabins.
Politics & Policy
April 1, 1978
Election Tip Sheet
The dark horses, heavy favorites, and close calls of this year’s big elections.
Style & Design
April 1, 1978
Plastic Fantastic
“Plastics,” the man whispered to Dustin Hoffman in ‘The Graduate,’ and plastics—transformed from junk into art—it is.
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
April 1, 1978
The Petrified Forest
Behind the pine curtain of deep East Texas is a world trapped in the past and hidden from the future: lush woods, poor whites, the descendants of slaves, and an aristocracy still breathing the rarefied air of the Old South.
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.
True Crime
March 1, 1978
Playboys of the Western Plains
Amarillo millionaire Stanley Marsh 3 couldn’t believe his own good fortune—the Cullen Davis murder trial was coming to town.
Style & Design
February 1, 1978
Open House
Now for something completely different: a house that’s not rectangles or squares.
Sports
February 1, 1978
The Great Rockdale Football Mutiny
What happens when a high school football team tries to bench its coach?
Politics & Policy
January 1, 1978
The Good Old Girls
At the National Women’s Conference, the feminists changed their sandals for pumps and embraced mainstream America.
Style & Design
January 1, 1978
Art Yucko
How we learned to stop worrying and love the fifties.
Being Texan
December 1, 1977
They Found It!
Charismatics start by losing their heads and end up with a new kind of religion.
Politics & Policy
December 1, 1977
The Second Battle of the Alamo
Texas’ oldest city is heading for a political showdown, thanks to some newcomers to the power game.
Style & Design
December 1, 1977
Living in Glass Houses
The world is full of monuments to art—but how many can you live in?
Business
December 1, 1977
They’re Minding the Store
If you’re looking for Houston’s elite, forget the Petroleum Club; go to the produce center at Jamail’s.
Business
December 1, 1977
King of the Catalogs
Who is Roger Horchow and why is he doing these terrible things to our Christmas budgets?
Texana
November 20, 1977
The Last Frontier
The pioneers who came to tame the West met their match in the land of ‘Giant.’
Art
August 1, 1977
From Here to Infinity
Smile, you're a candid camera.
Music
April 1, 1977
Stereo Begins at Home
Positively the latest in sound thinking.
Style & Design
March 1, 1977
The Great Border Bazaar
We walk the line for you—from Matamoros to Juárez—to bring you the best of Mexican shopping.
Music
March 1, 1977
Seeing Red
The only way Red Garland could make us mad would be to quit playing piano.