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Highly Motivated. Despite his widely publicized, seemingly quixotic journey, Ross Perot is a modest, if highly motivated man. The son of a cotton broker, he neither smokes nor drinks, drives a five-year-old car and buys his conservative suits off the rack. He met his wife Margot while he was an Annapolis midshipman, and they and their four children live in a relatively modest four-bedroom house in Dallas...
...London, Ont., Richard Manuel in Stratford, Ont., and Levon Helm, down on a bare subsistence farm in Marvell, Ark. (pop. 1,200), were making similar plans. To Helm, it was especially urgent. "You get out of school in May, and that's when you've already started planting cotton. You work from there right through till September, and the only break jn there is the Fourth of July. I found out at about the age of twelve that the way to get off that stinking tractor, out of that 105-degree heat, was to get on that guitar...
...long pass on a fourth-down-and-three situation. Quarterback James ("Slick") Street lofted a beautiful 44-yd. completion to End Randy Peschel, and Texas scored moments later to take the lead. Then Defensive Back Tom Campbell picked off a Razorback pass to give Texas the game, a Cotton Bowl bid and the national championship...
...goal and a probable tie, Coach Royal ordered a run: Halfback Ted Koy barely picked up the necessary yardage. Three plays later the Longhorns found themselves in precisely the same situation at the Notre Dame ten. This time Street rolled to his left and pitched a wobbly pass to Cotton Speyrer, who made a desperate diving catch...
...zone for a touchdown with 68 sec. remaining. After the kickoff, Theismann threw two quick passes to take the Irish to the Texas 38. His next toss, though, stuck to the Arkansas script: it was intercepted on the Longhorn 14 by none other than Campbell. Texas had won the Cotton Bowl and its 500th game. Afterward, Royal admitted: "I thought fleetingly about a field goal. But if a champion is going to go out, he ought to be carried out feet first...