The keyed-up kids from the country were the first arrivals. Opening day at the Texas State Fair, the biggest annual fair in the U.S., was their day. It was dedicated to Texas 4-H Clubs, the Future Farmers of America and the Future Homemakers. Some in jeans and some in finery, the kids started pouring into the 187-acre Dallas fair grounds at 7 a.m. Some 45,000 of them had come, crowded into 1,000 school buses. Those from far west Texas had been up all night.
As soon as the bus doors opened, even the reddest-eyed wanted to beeline it for the fair's...
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