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...Preyer acknowledges, "these are not normal times." This year he is locked in a fierce battle with a harddriving, conservative Republican: Eugene Johnston, 44, a graduate of Wake Forest Law School ('61) and self-made millionaire. Johnston is chief stockholder and president of Fisher-Harrison Corp., a graphics company in Greensboro with annual sales of $10 million, and of Johnston Properties Inc., a real estate firm with holdings worth more than $5 million. Says Johnston: "Richardson Preyer is a nice, honest man who votes his convictions. But he does not represent our interests...
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...
Late one evening last week, Ulster Police Constable Ernest Johnston, 34, arrived home from his dangerous job patrolling the border with the Irish Republic. As he approached the garage of his isolated bungalow in County Fermanagh, two gunmen from the Irish Republican Army's Provisional wing opened fire at close range in the darkness. Johnston fell, mortally wounded, and the gunmen fled, presumably across the border only a few hundred yards away...
Balboni however did have good news for Square pedestrians and Harvard students. The area between the Store 24 and the temporary station will, as of December, completely take place underground. On the other hand, the major obstruction in the Square--the huge pit between Johnston Gate and the Cambridge Common--will remain open "for an indefinite period...