Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Perot's first stop was Bangkok, where he arranged to meet with Hanoi officials in Vientiane, Laos. They refused to allow delivery of the cargo to the American prisoners, so Perot tried another good-will tactic, offering "traditional Christmas dinners" for North Vietnamese war orphans. Rebuffed again, the persistent...
Nyet. Perot was a paradox to the Communists, who could not conceive of one man having so much power. To them, it was almost like dealing with a small, well-financed country. When the Viet Cong complained of civilian bombing by U.S. planes, Perot offered to make good the damages...
Highly Motivated. Despite his widely publicized, seemingly quixotic journey, Ross Perot is a modest, if highly motivated man. The son of a cotton broker, he neither smokes nor drinks, drives a five-year-old car and buys his conservative suits off the rack. He met his wife Margot while he...
Only eight years ago, Perot was a salesman for IBM. He used $1,000 to form the Electronic Data Systems Corp., and in what FORTUNE called "perhaps the most spectacular personal coup in the history of American business," he made it an incredibly successful computer manufacturing company whose stock is...
Toward this end, Perot has given away fortunes. He anonymously contributed $2.4 million to form an experimental elementary school for 1,000 poor Dallas black and Mexican Americans. An Eagle Scout during his Texarkana youth, Perot gave $1 million to the Boy Scouts to investigate ways of taking scouting into...