Word: perots
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University officials are hoping to strike a deal with Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot that would allow him to rent tens of thousands of artifacts from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology's enormous and underexposed collection...
Peabody officials said this week that they have informally begun talks with Perot's associates about constructing a Texas extension to the Peabody and renting it some artifacts on a rotating basis. The extension would be built by, and would bear the name of the Dallas computer magnate...
...company that Smith sought. "They are a storehouse of technology," he says. "Hughes' single biggest asset is its brainpower and teamwork." But Hughes coveted its independence and initially spurned GM. The rebuff turned the automaker toward Electronic Data Systems, a Dallas-based computer-services firm that Founder H. Ross Perot had built into the largest company in its field. Smith sees E.D.S. as the key to upgrading GM's worldwide computing operations. Under the Texas firm's guidance, GM machines performing tasks as varied as running payrolls and controlling robots will be forged into a unified network. As a first...
Smith concedes that he would have been deeply disappointed if Perot had rejected GM. "We were seriously discussing buying a defunct college in Iowa, hiring scientific talent and teaching our people about data processing and electronics," Smith recalls. "With E.D.S., we weren't just buying a bumper and a fender. We were getting a running Indianapolis 500 racer at the starting line, already preparing to run away from the pack...
Loose lips, eccentric behavior-characteristics long affixed to this town-have to be searched for now, rooted out. Oh, evangelists still holler on the radio stations: they do not say things so much as they "sayeth" them. And H. Ross Perot did plan a commando operation against a whole country, Iran, to get two of his employees back. "Mad" Eddie Chiles-an ideologue who, says a longtime listener, "lives in a permanent state of incoherent fury"-is still on the air, and people drive around sporting bumper stickers that say I'M MAD, TOO, EDDIE...