Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pledged. "I am basically a cautious, conservative man," he says. His is the typical up-by-the-bootstraps story, black or white. He was born in Calvert, Texas, a dusty town so small, he says, "that you can spit all the way across it." His father, a cotton picker, kept moving the family until they finally reached Los Angeles in 1923. Bradley attended an almost exclusively white high school. Nicknamed "Long Tom" because of his commanding height (6 ft. 4 in.), he became a football and track star. He took racial slurs in stride. Recalls Robert Carter, a landscape architect...
Perot, the son of an East Texas cotton and cattle trader, apparently genuinely believes that philosophy. In 1962 he quit a safe job as an IBM computer salesman to work for Blue Cross-Blue Shield and to start his own computer software company, Electronic Data Systems. By 1969 it had grown enough to make Perot a billionaire at the age of 39. That left little danger; so Perot, who might be described as a mixture of Billy Graham and Don Quixote, has sallied forth to rescue Wall Street from the dragons plaguing it. In 1970 he heeded pleas from John...
...will eventually agree on a compromise version that will present President Nixon with a firm order from Congress to stop the fighting once and for all. Significantly, even hitherto loyal supporters of the President's war policy joined in the Senate committee vote. Rumbled New Hampshire Republican Norris Cotton: "As far as I am concerned, I want to get the hell...
...main business of the mission will be, as Bruce put it, to normalize relations. Apart from that, it will oversee American trade with China, which is expected to reach $500 million this year, largely due to the sale of cotton, grain, five Boeing 707s, and $9,000,000 worth of RCA communications satellite equipment. Much of the serious political business, however, is expected to be handled in Washington by Presidential Aide Henry Kissinger and Chinese Representative to the U.S. Huang Chen, who is expected to arrive by mid-June...
...table is his ability to stay loose and observe his opponents keenly. No matter what the stakes, he keeps up an amiable chatter with other players. "Some of these guys play the games real uptight," he says; "it's so quiet you could hear an ant pee on cotton. But Ah like to shake 'em up, put a rattlesnake in their pocket and ask 'em for a match...