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...Keys, who had driven out of Toronto from the age of 13, was a veteran of a trucker's pleasures. "I wasn't such a great drinker," he says, "but women were a source of evil for me." He had also narrowly escaped death from a flash fire while fueling trucks. "At the ripe old age of 20, I was coming apart." A chance visit to a Toronto church service led to three nights of prayer, and "on that third night I gave myself to Jesus Christ." He got married, began Bible studies, and was eventually ordained...
...trades and substituting negotiated commissions. "We decided," says Garrett, "to stop the uncertainty and fix the timetable." That comment underscores his determination to set in motion reforms that have been stuck in the SEC's pipeline for years. One of the more important is a proposal to flash on a single composite tape the latest prices for securities traded on any exchange in the country. Garrett reports that a 40-week trial run for 15 representative securities will begin in October...
...become president of Briarcliff, a small college for women on New York's Hudson River. He plots Mark Adams' unsentimental education with the synchronized precision of a military operation. In addition to this main objective, he also assaults a number of targets of opportunity. There are flash backs about upper-class courtship and wedding rituals, a peek into office politics at U.S. Army training bases, and a particularly biting set piece about affluent Connecticut Episcopalians singing We Shall Overcome at a memorial service for Martin Luther King...
...seagull drinks water off the roof of a factory. The narrow streets flash by perpendicular to the tracks. Down through a narrow gorge bordered on both sides by elevated highways, and then a flat plain crowded by a colony of monstrous housing projects, each twenty-story building in the shadow of its neighbor...
...with an anti-Xerox weapon: a combination of fluorescent dyes that can render a piece of paper uncopiable. The dyes, which can be sprayed on a document from an aerosol can, are invisible until hit by the powerful light of a Xerox machine. Then they fluoresce with a bright flash that makes the copy momentarily illegible. After copies of a document had been distributed to all those authorized to see it, the original and the copies could be sprayed with the dyes so that attempts to make additional, unauthorized copies would produce only blank paper...