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There are plenty of ways to defeat the desktop forger. The Standard Register company in Dayton, for example, sells a complete line of aids, from artificial watermarks that can be seen from an angle but are invisible to document scanners, to specially treated paper stock that, when tampered with, displays the word VOID in English, Spanish and Latin. But the counterfeiters do not seem daunted. A man in Boston used computer-faked checks and purchase orders to buy computer equipment. A couple in Phoenix made the rounds of the local liquor stores and check-cashing agencies with phony paychecks stamped...
...Enter Dayton Hyde, an Oregon rancher with a reputation for unorthodox management and a deep interest in conservation. "In my travels I kept going by feedlots seeing these poor creatures cooped up," says Hyde, 64. "I thought, That's no way to treat a wild horse. My dream was to get these horses out of the feedlots and running free again...
...plucky choice for an institution traditionally headed by button- down white men, an organization that had become as all-American as the Girl Scouts and debutante parties. Within her first three years, Wattleton, a former nurse and midwife whose primary bureaucratic experience had been running the Dayton affiliate, shifted the organization's structure to a crisply corporate one, reshuffling more than half of the national office's employees...
...When Dayton Searles heard the pitch, he figured he couldn't lose. A telephone salesman representing a Las Vegas firm called Vita Life told Searles that he had won a valuable prize. The St. Paul retiree would receive a new car, a two-week vacation in Hawaii, an imported French fur coat, a combination television-VCR, or $3,000 in cash. To qualify, all he had to do was buy some vitamins. Without a moment's hesitation, Searles agreed to order an eight- month supply for $395. But when his prize of a fur coat arrived 3 1/2 months later...
...ordinarily bright spring-training atmosphere was further darkened by proliferating reports that Rose has blown his fortune on wagers. The Dayton Daily News stated that he recently sold the bat and ball from his record 4,192nd hit. Rose responded with a melancholy "No comment." None of his comments throughout the besieged week were more expansive than a flippant remark to S.I.: "I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball...