“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 Milt’s response: “We’ve got no choice.” ...

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From the Chapter
“Order in the Theatre!”
"Much of Milt’s 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 solicitor’s 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: Milt’s Part in its Downfall”
“The election was called, and all hands repaired to the hustings. M.L.A. Fleming’s 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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