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August 1977 Issue
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Features
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The Cactus Curtain
The word going across the border is: Uncle Sam doesn’t want you.
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The Greening of Cowtown
The most popular club at the Colonial Golf Tournament is the one with barstools.
Reporter
Review
Texas Monthly Review
Horses at the Theater Center; autos at the CAM; opera in the park; sweet music in the rough roadhouses; and the man of a thousand dances.
Reporter
Texas Monthly Reporter
The hottest political rumor in Houston (also the hottest divorce); what West Texans do for fun; death in a Sierra Blanca jail; why El Pasoans are so laid back.
Miscellany
Roar of the Crowd
Roar of the Crowd
The power of diamonds, black magic, picante sauce, and, last but not least, goats.