Word: ross
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...that matter, are Ross Perot and his Texas-size bank account. Last summer the Du Pont firm, hard up for capital as a result of Wall Street's bear market, agreed to merge with Glore Forgan Staats, thus picking up some $18 million in new money. Even that infusion was not enough, and to raise cash last November F.I. du Pont tried to sell 100,000 shares that it owned in Perot's computer-servicing company, Electronic Data Systems Corp. It had acquired the shares in a contract with E.D.S. for computer services. The deal called for Perot...
...that would exist only to finance the ambitious schemes of bright young men who want a chance." Du Pont's new owner has reason to believe that some of those schemes might be sound investments. Just twelve years ago, before he borrowed a small sum and started E.D.S., Ross Perot was earning $530 a month as a computer salesman...
...long jump from TV's Dr. Kildare series to Richard II, but Chamberlain has leaped the full distance in a Seattle Repertory Theater production just concluded. He may well have been aided by the strength, sensitivity and symmetry of Duncan Ross's direction. Ross conceived the play as a medieval tapestry. All of his groupings for the various scenes have a kind of heraldic harmony. He has taught his actors to speak with clarity and to be still when they should be still. Thus, when the focus is on Richard, or on John of Gaunt, or on Bolingbroke...
Five papers will soon be submitted to the council. Marc J. Roberts, assistant professor of Economics, is preparing an economics paper on alternative means of curbing water pollution. Ross and James Tobin, professor of Economics at Yale, are writing a paper on ways of remedying the distributional effects of inflation...