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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1978
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Super state’
fills British
trade journal
United Press Internationul
LONDON — Britain’s glossy
Architectural Review magazine
Monday circulated an entire
issue devoted to that “rich land
of opportunity, oil and gas —
Texas the super state.’
It pictured everything from
the Galleria in Houston to the
Mission San Jose de San Miguel
in San Antonio, surveyed the
work of seven Texas architects
and devoted eight pages of pic
tures and text to “Boom City”
Houston.
There still exists in Texas,”
the magazine said, “a conviction
that there is a bright future for
the human race. Texans live in a
kind of invincible summer and
their native conviction that to
morrow will be better than today
make the state a heartening place
to visit.
The magazine’s cover and an
inside feature centered on “hotel
glamor on a Texan scale” — the
Reunion Hotel in Dallas. Also
featured in photographs and ar
chitectural drawings were the
Dallas city hall, the University of
Texas at San Antonio, the First
National Bank of Amarillo,
Hulen Mall and the Water Gar
den in Fort Worth and a dozen
other structures.
“Like all visitors from the old
world to the newest of the new,”
its editors said in a summary,
"the Architectural Review was
impressed by the scale and rich
ness of the Giant State Texas that
is like a huge blackboard where
all the questions about the state of
Western man and his buildings
are chalked up in huge letters.”
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Bean-picking novice wins
at Terlingua chili cookoff
United Press International
ARRIBA TERLINGUA, Texas —
A novice San Antonio chili cook
broke chilidom’s cardinal rule but
managed to recover from his gaffe
and win the 11th annual World
Championship Chili Cookoff in this
dusty. Southwest Texas ghost town.
Richard Simon almost was dis
qualified from the contest Saturday
for adding beans — anathema to
true chili aficionados — to his chili.
The judges, however, in a gener
ous frame of mind, decided he could
continue cooking as long as he re
moved the illegal beans from his
pot.
Simon, an electrical technician at
Kelly Air Force Base, siphoned off
each of the offending legumes and
the judges later ruled Simon’s
County Mountie Chili the best of
the 75 entries.
Fort Worth’s Mike Sweet was
runner-up and Geneva Barron of
Bryan came in third.
The chili festival annually draws
thousands of tourists to the ruins of
Terlingua nestled in the southwest
Texas mountains near Big Bend Na
tional Park for two days of drinking
and eating chili.
But rain and cold autumn winds
forced cancellation of many airplane
flights and kept crowds to only a few
hundred.
A spry grandmother won the. fes
tival’s 85-mile marathon race that
began Friday. Bernice Hicks, 65, of
nearby Alpine, said she began jog
ging at age 59 to counteract em
physema.
She also was the first to scramble
over the festival’s version of the con
troversial “Tortilla Curtain.”
The 12-foot fence was erected as a
spoof of the U.S. government’s an
nounced plans to build alien-proof
fences in Texas and California to
slow down the migration of illegal
Mexican aliens into the states.
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