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Personal spiritual force often leads to political action at citadels like the Los Gatos, Calif., Christian Church. Pastor Marvin Rickard founded the congregation a quarter-century ago with 83 followers and an unshakable belief in inerrancy. Today a huge redwood-finished church sits on a trimly tailored 28-acre property, and 6,500 worshipers pack the three Sunday services. From this solid base, Pastor Rickard organized a referendum campaign that in 1980 helped repeal a Santa Clara County ordinance forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual preference...
Normally during this time of year the wind blows from the Northeast, Rickard said, adding that the Northwest wind forces controllers to send planes over Revere, Medford, and Somerville as well as Cambridge...
...Rickard said Massport reviewed the alternate runway system with citizens from around the Cambridge area about seven years...
Hughes had narrowly escaped injury when the quake toppled his movie sound amplifier. [Jim] Rickard had caught it just as it was about to fall on the billionaire...
...RICKARD, 57, a former lumberjack and World War II fighter pilot who sold insurance before joining Hughes as an $80-a-week driver two decades ago. His first job was to chauffeur the flock of Hughes' starlets. He went into the movie business himself with a drive-in theater in Idaho but returned to the Hughes fold after it failed. Rickard is a convert to Mormonism...