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...small and often clubby group of men who run the nation's financial center are acquiring an unlikely new member this week. H. Ross Perot, the 40-year-old computer multimillionaire from Dallas, will formally take control of F.I. du Pont, Glore Forgan & Co., the nation's third largest brokerage firm. No one on Wall Street seems quite certain how to welcome a Nice Guy from Texas. A banker sent Perot a cowboy suit, and an F.I. du Pont salesman ordered a pair of tasseled loafers for his new proprietor. Perot showed up in Manhattan wearing his usual...
...Capitalism, personal involvement and humanism, as exemplified by H. Ross Perot [Jan. 12], are essential to the solution of such vexing problems as urban decay, air and water pollution, and social injustices. Certainly the '60s taught us that big government, the Silent Majority, and the don't-give-a-damners...
...Viet Nam, Perot observes: "I want the killing stopped and the energies and creativity devoted to building America." So Perot formed an organization called United We Stand, whose guiding philosophy he describes broadly as "concern for all people." He believes that only a President can bring about peace and strongly backs Richard Nixon's plan to end the war. He would do the same for Hubert Humphrey if he were President, says Perot, who also defends the rights of dissenters. Recently, he financed Paris trips by wives of missing G.I.s in an unsuccessful effort to learn from the Hanoi...
Town Meeting. Perot is deeply concerned that many Americans do not become involved with vital problems of the country. To help change this, he is negotiating with the TV networks for hour-long discussions of national issues. The programs will have an electronic town-meeting format: 20 minutes of impartial background and 20 minutes each for two exponents of differing viewpoints. Printed ballots will appear in newspapers for viewers to mail in, giving their responses to the debates...
...care where they stand," insists Ross Perot. "The man I worry about is the one who hasn't taken any position...