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...Expect a miracle," Faith Healer Oral Roberts exhorts his TV congregations, and he practices what he preaches. When he quit the gospel big top to build himself a university (TIME, Feb. 7), Roberts set his heart on a national basketball championship. Lo, last week there was Oral Roberts University in the quarter-finals of the National Invitation Tournament at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. During the game between O.R.U. and St. John's University, St. John's star Mel Davis had to be carried off the courts with torn tendons in his right knee. Good Samaritan Roberts...
When Dr. Calvin Hastings Plimpton served as president of Amherst College, he brought a healer's touch to the liberal arts school in more ways than one. He used a calm, fatherly approach to the academic and financial problems that confront all college presidents, and when medical needs arose, he would pick up his black bag and make house calls around town. Now, as president of the State University of New York's Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, Plimpton still makes house calls of a kind. Since his arrival in August, he has dropped in on faculty members...
Muskie will present himself to voters as a healer and a unifier-striking the same "bring us together" theme that Richard Nixon sounded in his Inaugural Address. "I think the country wants to believe in itself again," says Muskie, "not only in its purpose or moral values, but also its quality to achieve whatever it sets as a national goal." He uses the word manage repeatedly, suggesting that besides suffering from racial and ideological ills, the nation has become rather incompetent. "We're not even sure we can manage ourselves or do anything that requires management," he says. "We have...
...producing visions that, Córdova-Rios says, actually enhance human intelligence. After many adventures-hunting, harvesting rubber, procuring arms for the tribe-Córdova-Rios eventually tired of the Indians' pettiness and "musky odor." He escaped to civilization, where he became renowned as a great healer...
Died. Asa A. Allen, 59, fire-breathing evangelist and faith healer; of an as yet undetermined cause; in San Francisco. Only days before his death, Allen mailed letters and made radio broadcasts refuting rumors that he was dead. Many of those letters arrived after his actual death; now Allen's associates are left with the problem of informing his followers of the final truth...