Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...