Word: jasper
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...beaver toppers collapsed with the rise of the silk hat, a fashion change that ended the great Western fur brigades and the day of the mountain man. In the 1950s beaver has been slipping from favor in women's coats. "Ladies," says Maine trapper Jasper Haynes, "just aren't wearing beaver coats...
...What Jasper Haynes had not dreamed was that the presentation, arranged months ago, would fall in a week when gifts in government had Washington newsmen in a happy, hungry chase. The State Department had just kicked downstairs affable Victor Purse, 38, deputy chief of protocol, for accepting a sort of grandiose tip from Arabia's King Saud. The gift: a $3,000 Oldsmobile convertible, tendered to Purse's wife after Purse had seen Saud to the diplomatic door by flying back to Saudi Arabia with him after last February's state visit...
...maintained in near perfect condition as a period piece both inside and out until it was willed to the city of Bridgeport, Conn, last year by the late Industrialist Archer C. Wheeler. Because the mansion stands on what is now valuable downtown real estate, Bridgeport's Socialist Mayor Jasper McLevy last August got court permission to demolish the house, build in its place a new twelve-story city hall and civic center...
...yard dash, Princeton has three aces, Crosby Boyd, Jasper Daube, and Hewes Agnew, who should press the varsity's Sandy Dodge and Joel Landau, while Daube in the 220 has run a 22.0, more than .6 seconds faster than Dodge's best time...
...Jasper is blasted from the earth, crushed to powder, washed to rid it of some impurities, then mixed into a special oil solution that floats the fine particles of iron to the surface. They are concentrated into small pellets by centrifuge...