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My sister and I grew up in a little village in England. Our father was a struggling 21, but I always knew he was 22. He never criticized us, but used 23 to bring out our best. He’d say, “If you pour water on flowers, they flourish. If you don’t give them water, they die.” I 24 as a child I said something 25 about somebody, and my father said, “ 26 time you say something unpleasant about somebody else, it’s a reflection of you.” He explained that if I looked for the best 27 people, I would get the best 28. From then on I’ve always tried to 29 the principle in my life and later in running my company.

  Dad’s also always been very 30. At 15, I started a magazine. It was 31 a great deal of my time, and the headmaster of my school gave me a 32: stay in school or leave to work on my magazine.

  I decided to leave, and Dad tried to sway me from my decision, 33 any good father would. When he realized I had made up my mind, he said, “Richard, when I was 23, my dad 34 me to go into law. And I’ve 35 regretted it. I wanted to be a biologist, 36 I didn’t pursue my 37. You know what you want. Go fulfill it.”

  As 38 turned out, my little publication went on to become Student, a national 39 for young people in the U.K. My wife and I have two children, and I’d like to think we are bringing them up in the same way Dad 40 me.

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  Fidenzio Salvatori is determined that the city of Toronto will have an outdoor marketplace for merchants from its immigrant community, complete with dancing and other forms of amusement from their native countries. “Toronto is truly multicultural(),” he said in a newspaper interview. “It’s a city from many places, and a multicultural marketplace will help Torontonians to understand and appreciate the rich variety of cultural groups in our city.”

  Salvatori, aged 23, will soon complete his studies at the University of Toronto. He was eleven years old when he came to Canada from Italy with his parents. “Most of Toronto’s immigrants are from lands where the marketplace has always been part of daily life,” he said.

  Salvatori has been interested in getting an open-air market for Toronto for the last three years. This year, with the help of two fellow students, he prepared a proposal on the subject and presented it to the city’s Executive Committee, asking for their support. The proposal pointed out Toronto’s rich variety of national groups, “ whose customs include market shopping.”

  Under a Canadian government program for multiculturalism, the three students have received two thousand dollars with which they will do a study to find out whether Toronto’s immigrant businessmen would support an open-air market. They hope the merchants will support the plan strongly. “ A study done earlier this year showed that 90 percent of shoppers would be in favor of it,” Salvatori said. “ At first it would be an experiment. But we think it will prove to be good business for the merchants, as well as a tourist attraction.”

61. What is Fidenzio Salvatori’s purpose of having an outdoor marketplace for Toronto?

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