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Perot... Best of His Recollection, That's Not What the Hearings That He Queried Texas BC/BS (Continued from Page 1) Happened BSERVER OA Journal of Free Voices 250 A Window to the South April 14, 1972 Welfare pays Perot's dues questioned in executive session, a courtesy Any man born in the United States of processing firm, Electronic Data Systems, had been profiteering with federal welfare not often extended to private citizens. America is twice-blessed. And he is Four later hearings were held in :public, thrice-blessed if born in Texas. funds in California. While Ramparts was raking EDS muck in California, the however, and the transcripts from the —H. Ross Perot at the Texas Capitol, In tergovernmental Relations sessions reveal that Perot did some pretty Feb. 12, 1971 Subcommittee of the House Committee on slick numbers to get the money to pay his dues. Nothing illegal, of course, nothing as Austin Government Operations was doing an even more thorough job in D.C. The Washington gross and blatant as stealing a welfare H. Ross Perot is a human dynamo. A hearings concentrated mainly on Perot's mother's food stamps. The story gets very self-starter, a go-getter and one heck of a dealings with Texas Blue Cross-Blue Shield. complicated, but in a nutshell: Ross Perot swell fellow all rolled up into one. Why We may never know how Perot justified used federal tax money to develop a data he's even given $2 million of his own the fees he has been knocking down for processing system; he used good old personal money to the Boy Scouts of data processing services in ten state capitalist knowhow to draw up a America. medicare-medicaid programs. He was (Continued on Page 3) You couldn't find a better hero for a. • capitalist fairy tale if you searched every oil rig and anhydrous ammonia tank from the Red River to the' Rio Grande. Ross Perot was the champion paper boy of Texarkana, Texas. He went on to be a model Naval officer, the most successful computer salesman in the history of IBM and, 0 American Dream; a billionaire before he was 40. THE ROSS PEROT story began, as far as the newspapers and the Republican administration are concerned, when he launched his "Tell It to Hanoi" campaign in 1969. He may not have convinced the North Vietnamese to release a single prisoner of war, but he managed to swing the public's disillusionment with the war to the less domestically volatile issue of bringing the prisoners back home. And America loved him for it. "H. Ross Perot pays his dues," Fred Powledge wrote in the New York Times Magazine, a year ago February. The Times fawned over the fact that he dipped into his hard-earned billion to boost the POW effort and that he spent millions on the scouts and on poorly educated blacks in his hometown of Dallas. But it wasn't until Ramparts printed "H. Ross Perot: America's First Welfare Billionaire" that a journalist bothered to ask the crucial question: Where did he get the money to buy all those pretty packages he never got to deliver to the prisoners of war? Ramparts writer Robert Finch (Oct., 1971) described how Perot's data Illustration by Tony Dubovsky The corning fortnight. • • By Suzanne Shelton APRIL GRAB BAG RODIN — Lovers of Rodin sculpture can view this collection of 84 bronzes and sketches from the Musee Rodin collection in Paris; April 18 through June 18, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. WEBER WORKS — Fifty works by "Max Weber: The Years 1906-1916," covering the years of experiment that led Weber to become first American artist utilizing concepts of Cubism; also retrospective exhibition of works by B. J. 0. Nordfeldt, Scandanavian-born American painter living in Southwest, including 45 paintings and 11 graphic works covering period 1901-1954; through May 14, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth. ART FESTIVAL — Twenty-second annual "Vaudeville to Broadway" theme highlighting girl who recently won a Grammy for best Houston Post Spring Art Festival of various art heritage of American theatrical music; Municipal comedy album, in concert; 8:30 p.m., Music Hall, Auditorium, Austin. forms created by students from 30-county area; Houston. April 22 through May 14, Museum of Fine Arts, APRIL 23 Houston. APRIL 17 SHAKESPEARE — "A Midsummer Night's MUSICAL TRIO — Emerson, Lake and Palmer Dream," Shakespeare's lyric comedy on three experiment with their moog synthesizer, organ APRIL 13 levels, including two love triangles and a and piano, along with the group, "Free" (though RAINDROPS MAN — B. J. Thomas, whose play-within-a-play, plus the rustic antics of you pay to see them); 8 p.m., Hofheinz Pavilion, recording of late goes something like "Long Ago, Bottom, presented by Department of Drama with University of Houston, Houston. Tomorrow," in concert with Climax, doing their guest director Jerome Kilty; through April 22, 8 hit recording of "Precious and Few"; 8 p.m., p.m., Hogg Auditorium, University of Texas, APRIL 24 Municipal Auditorium, Austin. Austin. WOODWINDS — SMU Faculty Woodwind Quintet perform as part of SMU Faculty Series; APRIL 14 APRIL 18 Meadows School of the Arts, Dallas. JOE EGG — Josephine, known as Joe, a STALLIONS — The famous Royal Lipizzan 10-year-old epileptic whose father describes her Stallions of Austria that can jump and glide in APRIL 27 as "a human parsnip," is subject of playwright horse ballets, featuring Wolfgang Dellefont on MUSIC MEN — Kenny Rogers and the First Peter Nichols' comedy "A Day in the Death of horseback; through April 19, 8:15 p.m., Edition, in concert; Jones Hall, Houston. Joe Egg," in University drama department's Coliseum, Austin. experimental series; through April 19, Drama BRECHT — "Threepenny Opera," Bertolt Building Theater Room, University of Texas, ICE SKATERS — "Holiday on Ice" features all Brecht's drama set to music by Kurt Weill, Austin. the trimmings, ice queens and clowns and performed by First Repertory Company; through sparkling tutus; what better way to spend a hot April 29, also May 4-6, 11-13, 18-20, 25-27; First OPERA — Pathetic hunchback Jester, known summer day?; through April 23, Coliseum, Repertory Theatre, San Antonio. as Rigoletto, plots and schemes until his Houston. vengeance misfires in Verdi's opera, performed by Fort Worth Opera Association with New York Moon sample APRIL 21 City Opera baritone Louis Quilico and Met AUSSIE FILMS — Australian filmmaker Roger No god was ever soprano Joy Clements; also April 16, Convention moved to make a man from this Center Theater, Fort Worth. Sandall, visiting professor at Rice, best known for his penetrating documentaries on Australian ambiguous dust. aborigines, presents selection of his films; Grace Ross FEIFFER COMEDY — "Little Murders" is Fort Worth Jules Feiffer at his most bitter in comedy through April 23, Media Center, Rice University, Houston. directed by Clifford Ashby, performed by University Theatre; 8:15 p.m., also April 15, MORE JC — "Jesus Christ Superstar" is "back 5:30 and 8:45 p.m., April 16 and 17, 8:15 p.m., Farenthold Reprints University Theatre, Texas Tech University, by popular demand," with national touring Lubbock. company; 7:30 and 10 p.m., Hofheinz Pavilion, Houston. The article on Frances Farenthold from MORE OPERA — "Tannhauser" features one the April 9, 1971 Observer ("A of those love triangles with a goody-twoshoes, a PIANO CONCERT — Albert Hirsh, piano soloist, with A. Clyde Roller directing UH superwolf and a red-hot-mama, sung by Jess Melancholy Rebel") and the editorial Symphony Orchestra perform selections by Thomas, Klara Carlow, and Wolfgang Annheisser endorsement of her candidacy from the Wagner, Rachmaninoff, Webern and Stravinsky in with Houston Grand Opera; also April 16, Jones second annual University of Houston Music March 3, 1972 issue are available in a Hall, Houston. Scholarship Benefit Concert; 8:30 p.m., Jones four-page reprint. Minimum order: 10 Hall, Houston. APRIL 15 for $1.00. Additional copies, 100 each. FOLKLORICO — This is the colorful Ballet APRIL 22 Substantial discounts for orders of 100 Folldorico of Mexico, directed by Amalia JAZZ FEST — Brazilian guitarist Laurindo or more. Hernandez, with 7 5 dancers, singers and Almedia, credited with introducing bossa nova to musicians in dances exemplifying Mexican this country, performs with Billy Taylor, musical heritage; 8:30 p.m., also 2:30 p.m. April 16, director for David Frost Show, plus One O'Clock Please add the 5% sales tax to your Music Hall, Houston. Lab Band of North Texas State University in remittance and mail to The Texas 1972 College Jazz Festival; 2 and 8 p.m., Observer, 600 W 7, Austin 78701. HAIRCUT HARMONY — Eleventh annual Municipal Auditorium, Austin. "Make Mine Barbership" concert with (adv.) 2 The Texas Observer LAUGH-IN LILY — Lily Tomlin, the Laugh-In of the Bureau.) Calhoon said that, to the Health Insurance (HEW), testified during Perot... best of his recollection, that's not what the hearings that he queried Texas BC/BS (Continued from Page 1) happened. He said he just wanted to gather about the allegation and "it was indicated sweetheart contract; and he snookered up all the materials and put them in one that there was nothing to this situation. some bureaucrats into approving the safe place. This was not pursued further," Tierney contract; and ever since the government At any rate, the records were not said. has been paying through the nose for a destroyed. Evans explained, "There was an Perot worked Blue Shield until just process it paid to develop in the first place. undercurrent among the people in my before another contract was given to EDS The snookered bureaucrats were none branch that when they heard that there in 1968.
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