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...also said that the number of Republicans inhis district has grown, though slowly, over thelast five years. In the last election for the sameoffice, his current Democratic opponent, 10-yearincumbent John F. Cox, slipped through with a51-49 victory, he said...
Claudet Houle, Panagopoulos' campaign chair,said that Cox "is probably laughing at us," sincePanagopoulos is only 20 years old and without muchexperience...
...Texas League Squeeze Play. One of Perot's best accounts was the Southwestern Life Insurance Co., which he inherited in 1958 from fellow salesman Jim Cox, who was promoted to a post in California. Some months earlier, Cox had received an order from Southwestern for a 7070 computer, then IBM's largest commercial unit. Perot had 90 days either to declare the deal dead (and get Cox to return a $10,000 partial commission) or to agree to try to install the machine himself for what was known as an installation commission. If he accepted the risk and failed, however...
...Cox, now 66, bitterly recalls that just as the 90-day period was ending, Perot demanded that Cox return his commission. "The account required almost constant attention, and Ross just let the deal die," says Cox, who feels that Perot then "would have resold ((the computer)) to Southwestern in a few months and kept 100% of the money. He was extremely devious...
...Cox says Perot relented only after Cox surprised his superiors by requesting the right to install the computer himself from California. "I was going to . take it all the way to the top of IBM," he says. "There are very few people who have really tried to cheat me on anything. And, in Ross's mind, he wasn't cheating me at all. That's the frightening part...