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Given to Houghton in June 1954 by the wife of John B. Stetson, the small book—approximately three by six inches—sports gold trim. Its binding features a greenish-gold hue as well as visible pores...
Carver came with immediate problems: Jacobs had to sell more boats in a soft economy. Among Carver's assets was Ranger Boats, which had been founded by Forrest L. Wood, a pine-tree- tall Arkansan in a Stetson who is pretty much the Paul Bunyan of bass fishing. Ranger, along with other fishing-industry firms, had for years sponsored fishing tournaments, but the payouts had been small because the companies couldn't afford big prizes...
...revolves around the cocaine trade. But the policemen who are supposed to put dopers behind bars are not often like TV's cool, sockless heroes with stern moral codes. Christmas week brought more grim tidings of internal vice in the Miami police department. First, the city's tough-talking, Stetson-wearing police chief, Clarence Dickson, announced that two former officers had been charged with stealing 150 lbs. of cocaine. Less than 24 hours later, four additional Miami policemen were arrested in connection with an ugly coke deal that led to three deaths last summer...
Picture a Toyota engineer in a Stetson, munching on a corn dog, and you'll get a sense of how the company sees its future. Toyota is constructing its sixth North American assembly plant, in the heart of truck country just outside San Antonio, Texas, aiming to build the next generation of its full-size Tundra pickup there and--if all goes as planned--finally conquer the U.S. truck market. Achieving that feat would mark a milestone for Toyota in its quest to become the great American car company and would follow its conquest of virtually every other market segment...
Most cowboy poems speak of real events and people, from bucking horses and cagey cows to old Stetson hats and long winter travels. Although they focus on the ordinary stuff of life, their truths, at least to cowboys, seem no less eternal than those penned by William Shakespeare. Some cowboy poems are bust-a-gut funny; a few are downright dirty. And some are just plain awful. But many carry an honest, primitive power, like these lines from Vern Mortensen's Range Cow in Winter...