Congressman from Dallas, Is the Chal- Ment, Showing Him Good for $2.3 Million
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BSER VER A Journal of Free Voices 50fi A Window to the South THE TEXAS October 29, 1976 These two fellows are your major choices Steelman also has jabbed effectively at on Nov. 2 for the U.S. Senate. It is not a Bentsen's refusal to make a complete dis- happy choice. The base facts are these: closure of his financial holdings—a sore SIX • Bentsen, a 55-year old Democrat from spot that Ralph Yarborough hammered in McAllen, is the incumbent; his 1970 race against Bentsen. In 1971, • Steelman, a 34-year old Republican Bentsen finally issued a net worth state- congressman from Dallas, is the chal- ment, showing him good for $2.3 million. lenger; Since then, Bentsen has stonewalled. Steelman has released a statement of his MORE • Neither candidate comes close to being current net worth ($27,135) and a copy of a progressive, though both flash his income tax return. touched-up liberal credentials when they find themselves in that kind of a "The biggest bogus issue of the race" is crowd; what Bristol thinks of financial disclosure. He says that Bentsen has resigned from • The campaign has stirred little en- board memberships on all profit-making YEARS thusiasm among party workers, and corporations (Lockheed, Continental Oil, the general voting public seems hard etc.), has sold his own business, has put all Austin, Washington, D.C. pressed to stifle a statewide yawn; Lloyd Bentsen Jr. was raised rich, and it of his holdings in an irrevocable blind trust • Steelman has been the more interesting and does not even accept honorariums for shows. He has the sort of self-assured, and aggressive campaigner; slightly arrogant bearing that characterizes speaking. Furthermore, says Bristol, wealthy corporate executives who are cer- • Bentsen is going to win it. Bentsen did most of this "pre-Watergate." tain of their place in the scheme of things. The nearest thing to an issue in the entire So why not just release a new net worth Alan Steelman was not raised rich, and it campaign is Steelman's persistent charge statement and shut Steelman up? "Because shows. His is the bearing of a striving young that Bentsen is the bag toter of the special it's not relevant to the campaign; not a Republican, scrambling out of a working- interests, carrying their legislation in the legitimate issue," concludes Bristol. And, class background to the lofty environs of Senate and carrying their money in the elec- with a dash of Catch-22 logic, Bentsen him- the U.S. Congress and God knows where tion. Steelman has pounded Bentsen par- self says that to issue an update of the 1971 next. ticularly hard for his work on the recently statement would be a violation of his blind passed tax bill, pointing to Bentsen amend- trust. ments that aided Hollywood movie produc- (Continued on Page 3) ers, banking interests, private hospitals, shipping companies, book publishers, oil firms, and others (see Obs., Aug. 20). In pressing these charges, Steelman tag- ged Bentsen with the only memorable epithet of the campaign, "Loophole Lloyd." (Bentsen tried to come back with a lame "Absent Al," referring to Steelman's poor congressional attendance record dur- ing the past several weeks of campaigning, but it just didn't hum, so the Bentsen people dropped it.) George Bristol, Bentsen's campaign manager, brushed aside the "Loophole Lloyd" talk as no more than campaign rhetoric, arguing that "Texas is a big state with a lot of special interests, including pen- sioners, farmers, small businesses, and others." In their view, the senator is in a position to aid all comers: "I will not turn a deaf ear to any justified request for assis- tance from a constituent, be he a con- tributor or a non-contributor [to my cam- paign]," Bentsen assured The Dallas Morn- ing News. The incumbent The challenger OCTOBER 30 TANDEM PLAYS—The Alley has recovered BROTHERLY BENEFIT—Steve Fromholz from its vice-presidential debate and is back to returns to his high school stompin' grounds in the business of real drama, with Harold Pinter's benefit concert for Big Brothers and Big Sisters "The Collection" and John Mortimer's "The of Denton County; 9 p.m. Main Auditorium, Dock Brief" presented in tandem on the small North Texas State University, Denton. stage; through Nov. 14, Arena Stage, Alley Theatre, Houston. Fortnight THE MADWOMAN—I've always thought she was perfectly sane, but judge for yourself, as NOVEMBER 4 Children's Theatre presents Jean Giraudoux's EAT 'EM UP—"Eaters of Darkness" is a By Suzanne Shelton "Madwoman of Chaillot"; through Oct. 31, Nov. weirdo of a ballet by Walter Gore, with Ben 6-7, Margo Jones Theatre, Southern Methodist Stevenson's "Harlequinade" and staging of University, Dallas. "Graduation Ball" also scheduled for per- formance by Houston Ballet; through Nov. 6, BITS IN HIGH C—Opera excerpts, performed Jones Hall, Houston. by UT students, directed by old pro Walter Du- NOVEMBER GRAB BAG cloux, with free admission; through Oct. 30, 8 BOOMING BARITONE—German baritone SCIENTIFIC SIBERIA—For those of you p.m., UTOPIA Theatre, Austin. Hermann Prey displays his fine form in solo voice who wonder what's out there besides exiles, concert; Hogg Auditorium, University of Texas, "Scientific Siberia" exhibition includes Soviet OCTOBER 31 - Austin. satellite, lunar module, gems, furs; through Nov. WITCHES' BREW—They can't help that it's Halloween and that the spooks may tinker with 4, Museum of Transportation, HemisFair Plaza, NOVEMBER 5 their tympani—the show must go on, as percus- San Antonio. ALUM'S ARIAS—As part of Homecoming sion ensemble of Del Mar College and Texas A&I celebration, Sheila Wall Barnes, noted New York DANISH DESIGNERS—Sampling of current University at Corpus Christi bang it out, for free; and Carnegie Hall vocalist, returns to her alma work by twenty top designer/weavers from 3 p.m., Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus mater for "Special Homecoming Concert"; 4 Denmark; Nov. 7 through Dec. 5, Art Museum, Christi. University of Texas, Austin. p.m., Ruth Taylor Concert Hall, Trinity Univer- NOVEMBER 1 sity, San Antonio. SUPPORT OUR OWN—"Texas Painting and COMMUNITY DANCES—An unusual ex- HAMLET'S REVENGE—In superior bit of Sculpture Exhibition, 1976," with works by perience, the chance to join in "Ten Circle Texas' finest, juried by Christopher Wilmarth, programming, productions of "Hamlet" and Dances for Everyone," as nationally-known "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are, Dead" play New York sculptor; through Dec. 26, Museum of dancer Deborah Hay comes to Austin to conduct alternate nights in repertory, giving audiences a Fine Arts, Dallas. her sensitizing-fun sessions of community dance, bit of the Bard, followed by Tom Stoppard's con- SIDE BY SIDE—Two exhibitions entitled sponsored by Laguna Gloria Art Museum; temporary study of Hamlet's avuncular buddies; "Larry Bell: Iceberg and Its Shadow" and "Im- through Nov. 5, Nov. 8-12, Studio D, Austin. alternate nights through Nov. 20, B. Iden Payne ages of Nature" by Ferenc Berko, the latter being YANKEE BRASS—New York Brass Quintet Theatre, University of Texas, Austin. a photographic exhibition, with Bell's large-scale appears in Distinguished Artists Series; 8:15 HANDEL IN ENGLISH—Handers baroque sculpture including 56 glass panels; through Nov. p.m., Roxy Grove Hall, Baylor University, 28; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi. opera "Samson" with glorious cast: Jon Vickers, Waco; also in residency Nov. 8-9, North Texas Maureen Forrester, Paul Plishka, and Patricia PRICELESS PLATA—Silver objects from the State University, Denton. Wells, with Dallas Civic Opera; also Nov. 7, 9, Rio de la Plata, which reflect Argentinian culture Fair Park Music Hall, Dallas. during 18th and 19th centuries; Nov. 5 through NOVEMBER 3 NOVEMBER 6 Dec. 3, Michener Galleries, University of Texas, CITYSCAPE—Previews of two plays collec- Austin. MR. RAY CHARLES—The man himself, with tively titled "Cityscape," including readings from the Ray Charles Revue; 8:30 p.m., Music Hall, SOUTHWESTERN SKETCHES—El Paso ar- Bertolt Brecht's "Primer for Citydwellers," and Houston. tist Jose Cisneros' precise pen and ink drawings "Paper Tiger" by East German playwright of ranch life in American Southwest and in Thomas Brasch—a must for theatre-buffs who NOVEMBER 7 Northern Mexico, through Nov. 8; exhibition of keep up with the changing form of the art; 8 p.m., BOFFO BALLET—Stanley Hall's troops still traditional Indian costumes of Guatemala, with Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin. pack them in to the Armadillo, as Austin Ballet unbelievably rich geometric patterns and tex- Theatre performs monthly concert; 7:30 p.m., tures, through Nov. 17; collection of original 19th Armadillo World Headquarters, Austin. century prints of Western cities, through Dec. 12; "The Cuzco Circle" collection of paintings by NOVEMBER 9 Peruvian artists, especially noted for use of gilt SYMPHONIC SOUND—Daniel Sternberg brocade, native symbolism, and flat colors in tex- conducts Waco Symphony Orchestra, with tile tradition, through Jan. 2; Witte Memorial Michel Debost on flute; 8:15 p.m., Waco Hall, Museum, San Antonio. Waco. OCTOBER 29 STEAMY STUFF—Corpus Christi native FESTIVE FOLKLORICO—Amalia Hernan- Terrence McNally wrote "The Ritz," which fea- dez' troupe of 75 dancers, singers, and tures a torch singer in a steambath (Midleresque); musicians—Ballet Folklorico de Mexico—flash through Jan. 2 except Christmas week, Theatre through Houston, on tour; through Oct. 31, Jones Under the Stars Cabaret, Houston. Hall, Houston. NOVEMBER 10 SPANISH PLAYS—El Grupo del Drama en DEAF THEATRE—The extraordinary Na- la Lengua de los Angeles has existed since fall, tional Theatre of the Deaf pays a visit to Texas; 8 1974, for the production of plays in Spanish lan- p.m., Music Hall, Houston.