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And finally he was warned that General Electronics was an example of the pitfalls involved in investing in the so-called High Growth stocks . Eddie turned off the radio in the parking lot as the closing Dow-Jones ' report was starting . During lunch , he succeeded in reading two articles in a six-week-old issue of _ Electrical World _ , the only one of the dozen technical journals he found time for now . At 12:35 word filtered into the department that one of the maintenance crew , Ramon Lopez , had been killed . A forty-foot ladder broke while atop it Lopez was hosing down a pothead , and he was driven backward into the concrete pavement by the high-pressure water . Eddie tried to identify the man . The name was distantly familiar but there was no face to go with it .