A lively discussion with a future senator (Mrs. Hutchison), a future governor (Mrs.

Richards), and the man who manages 22 million acres of Texas land that WFB describes as "oozingly petroliferous." Various economic and political topics are brought up, but the one the discussion keeps coming back to--and the one with the highest emotional temperature--is immigration. These Texans, differing politically, nonetheless agree that immigration is not a local or even a national problem, but an international one. Mrs. Hutchison, for example, proposes that, instead of looking at ways of keeping people out, we look at ways of helping them build up their economies at home so that they can stay there. WFB: "My own experience with bilingualism is that it is an utter and total phony. What you end up doing is having a society in which people speak either English or Spanish and understand a few frijoles words in between."