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...audience to tick off boxes next to candidates whose answers matched those tenets. "Government is there to protect the people. It's only there to provide security. And now it's usurping more and more duties," says Israel Jackson, a Liberty University student volunteering on Campbell County businessman Ron Ferrin's campaign. A former Obama supporter, Jackson dissected both parties' platforms and decided the GOP was the one hewing to the framers' principles. "It's almost a group-therapy thing," Lloyd says of the passion coursing through Tea Party events. "For years, they've felt isolated. If they spoke their...
...West Springfield, Mass., recently for a gathering of the New England Chapter of the Family Camping Association, only 462 came with tents or tent trailers; the rest arrived in motorized cabins on wheels. "It's not the camping, it's the traveling," explained Connecticut's Earl Ferrin, father of three. "We couldn't afford it using motels." Ferrin, who had not camped a day in his life until last year, when he converted a 60-passenger school bus, is planning to pack his family along to Montreal's Expo 67 this summer...
...clergymen-Dr. Howard W. Ferrin, president of the fundamentalist Providence (R.I.) Bible Institute, and Brother Bartholomew, representing the Order of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart, in Woonsocket-were bidding for Edgewood Junior College on the palatial Frederick Peck estate in Barrington, R.I. That morning Dr. Ferrin had offered $250,000; Brother Bartholomew had topped it with $300,000. The judge had ordered that sealed bids be presented that afternoon. They were, and an astonished clerk read them out: for the Brothers, $331,000; for the institute...
...explanation was due, and Dr. Ferrin made one out of court. He had talked it over with one of his own trustees. "I figured," said he, "that if we were going to stay in the bidding at all, we would have to go at least $325,000." Then he decided that the Brothers would probably reason the same way, and since they wanted to win, would probably raise it another $5,000. That would make their bid $330,000. But then the Brothers might suspect Dr. Ferrin of the same reasoning, and add another...
...Ferrin's closest competitor for early-season effectiveness is skyscraping George Mikan, the center-pin of DePaul's formidable five. In Chicago Stadium last week, even the full weight of his 6-ft.-9 power could not stop Illinois, which...