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THEA MERSMANN Casper...
...Robert Casper's sketch of a prissy, tantrum-throwing spoiler and Robert Flether's portrait of a stuffy Englishman are also twisted to caricature...
Last summer Norman H. French of Casper, Wyo., water expert of the U.S. Point Four program, went into the desert with a gang of Arabs and some U.S. earth-moving equipment. Jordan gets some rain, but it usually comes in violent cloudbursts, and the hard soil sheds it like a slate roof. Instead of sinking in, the water roars down the wadies (dry washes) and is lost in the sand...
Grand Master Reshevsky is a neat little man of 40, with delicate fingers and a bald head. He wears glasses, stands a shade over five feet, and generally has the inoffensive air of a Casper Milquetoast. But at the chessboard Reshevsky becomes a thinking machine. Smoking cigarettes, sipping gallons of ice water, he plays his own special brand of relentlessly logical chess with all the lethal poise of a cobra. Said an opponent: "I think the ice water he drinks goes right into his veins...
...CASPER BRENDEN...