
December 1978 Issue

Features


Hard Time
Ellis prison houses 2400 dangerous criminals, and it’s the safest place to live in Texas.
Columns
Bella Norma
Now you like it, now you don’t, now you like it again—Houston Grand Opera’s Norma.
Sacred Cows
Cows are dumb, they eat a lot, and they cost more to raise than they’re worth. Still, you can’t help loving ’em.
The Graining of America
If Jesus had tried to feed the multitudes with today’s bread, he would have been drummed out of the miracle business.
A Call to Farms
The Rockefellers are coming, and J.C. Lewis thinks they’re after the American farmer.
Blind Alley
Alley Theater’s season opener, Scream, was about Jews and Nazis. It was also about how not to run a regional theater.
Reporter
Texas Monthly Reporter
The dark side of doing business in Saudi Arabia; an endangered mountain in El Paso; and big profits with small airplanes.
Texas Monthly Reporter
The dark side of doing business in Saudi Arabia; an endangered mountain in El Paso; and big profits with small airplanes.
Miscellany
State Secrets
Will somebody write the Great American LBJ biography? Is Billy Clayton Texas’ Earl Butz? Will Dolph take care of his flock?