Travel & Outdoors
April 1, 1987
Cabin Fever
Not in the mood for a plush vacation resort or the rigors of backpacking? Instead, try solitude and starry nights at one of these ten park hideaways.
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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.
News & Politics
March 1, 1987
Hey, Mom, Have I Got an Assignment for You
Once kids did their own homework. Now ambitious parents do it for them.
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.
Being Texan
February 1, 1987
Momus to Remember
The god of merrymaking spends Mardi Gras in Galveston.
Energy
February 1, 1987
Undertakers of the Oil Patch
The death of an oil well keeps an oil-field service company alive.
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.
Travel & Outdoors
January 1, 1987
The National Tour of Texas
I’ve long dreamed of driving every highway in Texas. This year I’m doing it—all 32,000 miles worth.
True Crime
January 1, 1987
Total Hit
Nobody could stop San Antonio’s killer cop—except another cop.
Food
January 1, 1987
Between a Hard Rock and a Place
The world’s hottest restaurant chain turns into Texas’ hottest restaurant feud.
Style & Design
December 1, 1986
And a Piñata in a Pear Tree
In eight square blocks of Nuevo Laredo you can sample a cactus taco, hone your bargaining skills, and buy the best Christmas gifts on the border.
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
The Last Resort
Texans are always looking for a new frontier, a place where business people can do business without worrying about a lot of bureaucrats. Want to make it in Texas today? Come to Belize.
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
Famous Fixers
They have done it all: saved New York City and Massachusetts, written economic classics, created new companies, and turned old ones around. Now, at our request, they’re fixing Texas.
News & Politics
December 1, 1986
Lessons From the Golden Apple
Empty office buildings . . . bankrupt developers . . . budget deficits. It’s Manhattan, 1975. Things sure have changed, and by learning from some Yankee real estate barons, maybe we can find a way out of our troubles.
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.
Texas History
November 1, 1986
Moments of Glory
Texas Medal of Honor winners remember the day when they were invincible.
Business
November 1, 1986
Why Inman Left
The departure of MCC’s chief signals a new beginning for the company—and an end to Austin’s high-tech boom.
Books
October 1, 1986
Texas Primer: The Texas Institute of Letters
Belonging to this literary club is a lot like becoming a Texan; you can be a newcomer for only so long.
Art
October 1, 1986
The Eye of the Beholder
A museum in Texas is the last place Jacques-Louis David would expect to find his late masterpiece, but we’re glad it’s here.
The Culture
October 1, 1986
Beyond Halloween
On the Day of the Dead, Mexicans mock death with candy skulls and papier-mâché coffins. But in the darkness of a graveside vigil, the mockery gives way to tears.
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?.
Film & TV
October 1, 1986
After the Tears
Cambodian Lay Bun Sun escaped the terrors of the Khmer Rouge to film his dreams in Houston.
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.
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.
Being Texan
September 1, 1986
My Kind of Town
An enticing portfolio of what makes Houston Houston.
Politics & Policy
September 1, 1986
Texas Primer: Ma Ferguson
She unmasked the Klan and worried about the role of women, but she listened more to her husband than to the suffragettes.
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.
Arts & Entertainment
September 1, 1986
Requiem for a Roller Coaster
The state fair’s Comet: will it rust in peace?.
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.
Music
August 1, 1986
Why I Didn’t Attend Farm Aid II
Thank God I’m sort of a grown-up.
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.
Being Texan
July 1, 1986
Texas Primer: The Native Texan
You don’t have to be born here to qualify. The mark of a true native is an undying passion to be one.
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.
Politics & Policy
July 1, 1986
Primary Lesson
Subtract Democratic voters, add new Republicans, and it equals realignment.
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.
Travel & Outdoors
June 1, 1986
Grasslands
In the early journals of pioneers who described the prairie surrounding their new homesteads, the ocean was the most common metaphor—swells of grass set rippling by the wind.
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.