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...worse. Rosalynn Carter was scheduled to make campaign appearances with Lady Bird in Texas while her husband's L.B.J. remark was still on the air and in the headlines. Though Lady Bird was cool, she met Rosalynn in San Antonio and conducted her through the Johnson Library in Austin without so much as a mention of Playboy. At week's end, during an airport press conference in Houston, Carter tried to mollify L.B.J. admirers by explaining away his remarks as "an unfortunate juxtaposition of those two names [Johnson and Nixon] in the Playboy article that "grossly misrepresents...
...school in 1969. "Texas had become sophisticated," he says, "but the state's press was still back in 1946." So, with a newly won law degree and a grubstake from his father, Levy rented space in a dingy office building next to a false teeth factory in Austin and found Bill Broyles, an ex-Marine who was then an assistant to the Houston school superintendent. Like virtually everyone else Levy hired, Broyles was under 30 and almost innocent of journalistic experience. That was no handicap. After its first year, Texas Monthly won a National Magazine Award for specialized journalism...
Today, Texas Monthly has a staff of 50, plush offices on the 16th floor of an Austin bank building, and a $700,000 editorial budget-17.5% of the magazine's total expected revenues, v. an average of less than 11% at leading U.S. monthlies. Though staff members struck last summer after a Levy memo urged caution in writing about advertisers, the Texas kids are generally happy to be there. Says Senior Editor Richard West: "What could be better than writing about the land where you grew...
...handiest title to cover a multitude of sounds. At hundreds of festivals across the land, blue-grass picks and twangs its way along pretty much as it has for the past 40 years. The city of Nashville still produces its vanilla-shake love ballads with comforting monotony. Down in Austin, Texas, the country-rock cantatas of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings are as popular as ever. No single style or performance can typify all of country music. But one strain of country is something old and new called honkytonk. It is both a style and a place...
Kickback Charges. Riegle effectively projected the image of a tough, young, shirt-sleeved contender with no great love for Washington. He also outspent Austin, a black, by an estimated $350,000 to $200,000, in a contest where voters split along racial lines. Austin's campaign was seriously hurt by charges that he had taken kickbacks from the state's private license-plate vendors. When it was revealed that they had installed $10,000 worth of air-conditioning in his house as a "gift," his reply was that he did not know it was being done. Riegle will...