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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...
Although the plan would call for renting anywhere between 30-50,000 artifacts at a time to Perot, this would at most represent about 3 percent of the museum's 3,000,000 African, South American, Asian and native American pieces...
...Perot, who became a multibillionaire when General Motors purchased his computer company for $2.5 billion one year ago, is currently engaged in a controversial attempt to buy the Museum of the American Indian in New York for $72 million in pocket money. If the deal is completed, he is expected to build a 10-acre home for the collection in Dallas...
...Peabody official, who asked not to be named, said that after learning that New York government officials were using their resources to squeich the Perot-Indian Museum deal, the Peabody decided to approach Perot with its own loan program "lest that 70 million go to waste...
...Perot has indicated a willingness to come up with absolutely incredible sums of money to establish a museum in Dallas. We [at the Peabody] thought we might be able to work with him to set up some adjunct facility and bring our collection into the public eye," said Bruce Heafitz'62, a member of the Peabody's visiting committee, an advisory body to the museum...