Word: johnstone
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Music, the Doobies have turned fancier, slicker and more synthetic. They were a good singles band that was tuned up and turned into a commercial phenomenon. Producer Ted Templeman did the tuning. When he produced the first Doobies album in 1971, the band was led by Founder Tom Johnston, a hang-tough rocker who wrote many of the group's first hits. Templeman gave the early records an uncluttered, unaffected sound. But as the group started to change, its producer changed with it, and if he did not initiate these changes and new directions, he certainly encouraged them...
Preyer supports increased military spending, but also increased aid to the elderly, farm price supports, and the development of alternative energy sources. When asked why, as a Presbyterian elder who has been married for 34 years and has five children, he does not make an issue of Johnston's three divorces, Preyer replies, "It would be mudslinging...
...Johnston has focused his campaign on economic issues. At High Point's Civitan Club last week, he dramatically unrolled a 15-ft. chart showing the growth of the federal debt since 1941. Says Johnston: "Big Labor doesn't cause inflation. Big Business doesn't cause inflation. Big Oil doesn't cause inflation. Big Brother causes inflation." Johnston promises to re-evaluate the windfall-profits tax on oil companies and to slash federal income taxes by 30%. Says he: "The issue this fall is not between Republicans and Democrats. It is between those who want to vote...
Faced with such rhetoric, Preyer has lately loosened the gloves. Calling Johnston a "member of the radical right," Preyer says, "He wants to repeal the 20th century. What I'm concerned about is the 21st. "Johnston has quickly turned the phrase to his own advantage. Sure he is a radical, says Johnston, "the right radical...
Genex Corp. of Rockville, Md., another fast-rising entry in the field, was founded three years ago by Molecular Biologist Leslie Glick and another professional raiser of venture capital, Robert Johnston. Though the company is secretive about its projects, Bristol-Myers revealed that Genex is working for it on the production of interferon...