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Cover story on Willie Nelson.

Additional machine-extracted names mentioned in this issue: Stan Burch, Sun Fighter, Peter Fonda, Dale Jackson, Doug Kershaw, George McClain, Augie Meyer, Derek Moore, Warren Oates, Ron Rose, William Specht, Frank Spellman, Kenneth Threadgill, Buzz Williams.

Sam Holmes talks about growing up and the different jobs he's held in Austin, including selling newspapers and working in a grocery store as a child in the 1930s. He also shares memories of working at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, a popular political meeting ground when LBJ was president.

From 1999-2001, NASA partnered with History students at Southwest Texas State University (now Texas State) to conduct interviews with former employees who lived in the Central Texas area. Interviewees include managers, engineers, technicians, doctors, astronauts, and other employees of NASA and aerospace contractors who served in key roles during the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, and Shuttle programs.

Meeting minutes from the Texas State University System Board of Regents.