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A HANDBOOK ON HANDOUTS

By Tom Peeler | 40 years ago Winners and losers in the charity sweepstakes

BLACK GOLD BROWN POWER

By Ron Dorfman | 40 years ago How Mexico’s new oil wealth is moving the border north

BOOKS Short Subjects

By CHARLES MATTHEWS | 40 years ago Experts can help you pick good books for your kids. They can’t make the kids like them, however.

BORDER ON THE ABSURD

By Ron Dorfman | 40 years ago Another war with Mexico? It can’t happen here.

DINING OUT A Critical Guide to Restaurants

By D Magazine | 40 years ago

DINING OUT Caviar for the General

By MORRIS REDUX | 40 years ago Most of the resistance to caviar is pure prejudice.

FAMILIES Sarah and Michael

By JO BRANS | 40 years ago The social worker thought it was odd that Sarah wanted to adopt a child. Sarah had to admit it was.

Forgotten Dallas

By Charles Matthews | 40 years ago "If these Victorian residences still stood, Dallas would be as distinctive a city as San Francisco."

GOOD DEEDS Free Enterprise

By TOM PEELER | 40 years ago Volunteer work has its own rewards.

HOW CHARITY WORKS FOR THE RICH

By Leonard Reed | 40 years ago A look at the Community Chest Trust Fund might lead to some uncharitable deductions.

LETTERS

By D Magazine | 40 years ago

MANNERS Starting Over

By LINDSAY HEINSEN | 40 years ago Immigrants from the Soviet Union find more than political changes in their lives.

Natural Resources

By Louis Bignami | 40 years ago These gifts make roughing it a little easier.

PREVIEWS DECEMBER EVENTS

By D Magazine | 40 years ago

PUZZLING Time To Stock Up?

By PEGGY OGLESBY | 40 years ago

Skiing the Rockies

By D Magazine | 40 years ago

Spacemen

By David Bauer | 40 years ago Some people are better at being weird than others. These four are the best.

SPORTS How Much Are The Dallas Cowboys Worth?

By DAVID BAUER | 40 years ago Sure, we don’t really need to know. But it would be fun, wouldn’t it?

THE ARTS Good Buy, Old Paint

By DAVID DILLON | 40 years ago The market value of western art has almost nothing to do with its artistic value.

The Dallas Times Herald’s First Ladies of Fashion

By D Magazine | 40 years ago

THUMB AWARDS

By D Magazine | 40 years ago

TRAVEL Divers Entertainments

By WADE LEFTWICH | 40 years ago In the Cayman Islands not all the scenery is underwater.

UP FRONT DISD Bungles an Investigation

By D Magazine | 40 years ago

WH0’LL GET THE OIL?

By Ron Dorfman | 40 years ago Mexico’s find causes the U.S. some diplomatic headaches.

WINDFALLS

By YVONNE SALIBA | 40 years ago

WINE Brut Force

By E.R. SPURR | 40 years ago The world’s most prized champagne comes to Dallas, at $35 a bottle.
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