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From the Chapter
Security of the Person
"Further, in pursuit of protection, Milt had always encumbered
his telephones at home and at the office with coils of tape-recording
paraphernalia, the tape recorder being triggered by the telephone ringing
or by his placing a call. I remonstrated with him that ex-President
Richard Nixon had regretted a similar system, but I could have predicted
Milts response: Weve got no choice. ...
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Order in the Theatre!
"Much of Milts world was pure theatre. Things happened routinely
in his law practice that never happened in forty years of boxing files
to the poor dullards who moiled at the solicitors end or the pompous
pratts in the big firms who milked the cash cow clients on the civil
litigation side. They indeed led lives of quiet desperation....
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Politics Social Credit: Milts Part in its Downfall
The election was called, and all hands repaired to the hustings.
M.L.A. Flemings sole prodigious effort toward re-election was
to park his old Chevy Tudor at the bottom of the Elbow Drive hill that
swept down to the Elbow River on its way downtown, sit on the hood in
his dark brown Socred trilby hat and dark brown Socred overcoat (on
which were pinned his service medals) and dark brown-rimmed Socred sedate
specs, and wave from time to time to bored commuters. Nobody honked
nor, apparently, noticed nor, obviously, gave a damn. ...
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