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Titles listed below, and all others stocked by the Texas Observer Bookstore, are offered to Observer subscribers at a 20% discount. More Titles Think Ahead Buy Now . . . Avoid Delay The Texas Observer Bookstore pays for the postage and handling. Amounts shown are for discounted prices, plus the 5% sales tax. To Order Texas Observer Bookstore. Are you interested in receiving a more complete list of titles available from the Texas Observer Bookstore? BIRACIAL POLITICS: Conflict and Coalition of the Metropolitan South \(DavidHERBLOCK’S STATE OF THE UNION: Report on the Nixon Administration SIERRA CLUB WILDERNESS CALENDAR 1973 $ 3.32 TEST PATTERN FOR LIVING: A Twentieth Century Guide to Coping with Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness THE FOXFIRE BOOK \(Ed. Wiggin $ 3.32* YEARNINGS: Mexican-American Literature $ 1.22* SONGS & DREAMS: Mexican American Lit $ 1.22* LOS MOJADOS: The Wetback Story $ 2.48* THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE \(Strunk & $ 1.05* FIRE IN THE LAKE: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam \(Fitz SHADOW ON THE ALAMO: Heroes Fight Old Corruption in Texas Politics $ 5.84 $ 5.84* $ 4.20 $ 4.20 LAST WHOLE EARTH CATALOG $ 4.20* RULES FOR RADICALS: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals \(AlinBEYOND FREEDOM & DIGNITY: A Stunning New Plan to Alter Human OLD AGE THE LAST SEGREGATION Nader’s Study Group Report on Paperback STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE: A REPORT ON CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN AMERICA \(Prepared for the American Friends Service $ 1.64* $ 7.14 OUR BROTHER’S KEEPER: THE INDIAN IN WHITE AMERICA \(Cahn & Hearne, $ 3.32 LIVING THE GOOD LIFE: HOW TO LIVE SANELY AND SIMPLY IN A BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE $ 1.64* A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING $ 4.88* THE GREENING OF AMERICA $ 1.64* THE SOMETIMES GOVERNMENTS: A CRITICAL STUDY OF THE FIFTY AMERICAN LEGISLATURES \(Citizens LA RAZA: THE MEXICAN-AMERICANS $ 1.64* SAL SI PUEDES: Caesar Chavez and the New American Revolution $ 2.48* THE CHICANOS: MEXICAN AMERICAN VOICES \(Ludwig & Santibanez, $ 1.26* CONFESSIONS OF A WHITE RACIST $ 1.64* THE MAKING OF A RADICAL: A Political $ 2.06* THE WATER HUSTLERS: An Examination of Water Resources Manipulation and its Impact on the Environments of Texas, California and New York \(Boyle, Graves, $ 1.64* THE INJURY INDUSTRY AND THE REMEDY OF NO-FAULT INSURANCE $ 2.48* ALIENATION AND ECONOMICS \(Weiss $ 6.68 \(Non-Texas addressees exempt from THE TEXAS OBSERVER BOOKSTORE 600 W. 7, Austin, Texas 78701 program containing “some of the most clear-sighted analysis of the collegiate football condition I have ever read.” It is interesting to note that Truex, Harvey, and Anders represent a somewhat younger breed of sportswriter than, say, Cook, Maysel or Gallagher. The response of these older writers has been limited to a throwaway line by Maysel, calling Shaw a “fringe player.” Even Royal has been kinder than that. Though he has not read the book, the coach said he remembers Shaw favorably, as a player who “always carried out his practice assignments” and “did well in the classroom.” Shaw has had a problem’ with Sports Illustrated. The magazine paid Shaw $1,000 for serial rights to two chapters on Royal. But a Nov. 11 letter from the text department editor informed Shaw that “we have run into resistance from the managing editor regarding your excerpt.” Shaw was told to keep the money. The book-of-the-month arm of the magazine apparently still plans to offer Meat on the Hoof Shaw has charged that “pressure from the football establishment was brought to bear to cancel the series.” SI Managing Editor Andre Laguerre was unavailable for comment. Two other points of view on the problem of reporting UT football news came from interviews with television sportscasters. Phil Miller of KTBC-TV in Austin expressed some criticism of the AP and defended Royal \(saying it’s “not logical” that “a man of Coach Royal’s But he denied that he would refuse to criticize the UT program, though he described himself as a Longhorn “booster.” Mel Pennington of KHFI-TV said his over-the-air silence on the AP series and Meat on the Hoof was the result of time limitations rather than personal views. He called both efforts “rather heavy subjects to try to discuss in a minute on the air,” and said he could not have done them justice. He pointed out that he had offered to interview Shaw on his special-affairs talk show \(scheduling problems made that had covered Shaw’s book-signing stint at the University Co-Op. The newspaper format, he said, offered a much better place to treat in-depth studies of athletics. One can only hope that reporters like Heard and Keever use it. Or resign oneself to restrictive definitions of what is or isn’t sports news. J.F. sensing allways the end of self as a presence in the room. RYAN L. PETTY Austin 10 The Texas Observer