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...audible tones, to win a million souls by July 1, 1956. This theophanous request-especially with a deadline-might give pause to many a lesser man, but it is made to order for the special talents of the Rev. Oral Roberts, 37-year-old evangelist and faith healer and the U.S.'s newest religious comet...
...nomination pending his death, Sir Winston Churchill. Its Pope, Pham Cong Tac, was formerly a Saigon customs clerk. Hoa Hao is a rowdy sect of dissident Buddhists professing its belief in abstinence and prayer. Its founder, the late Huynh Phu So, augmented his fame as a healer when, the story goes, he was sent to a lunatic asylum and converted his psychiatrist. Binh Xuyen is an organization of bandits, in mustard-colored uniforms, who control both the brothels and the police of Saigon under a handy arrangement with the absentee chief of state, Bao Dai. Their commander, General...
Occupational Therapy. In Buenos Aires, arrested for undertaking to cure liver ailments at $21.75 a treatment by having her patients dance the mambo, Healer Dona Pancha, 59, paused en route to jail to mix herself a magic potion of liquids, unguents and powders to ward off claustrophobia...
...When she developed a small sore inside her mouth, a 58-year-old housewife asked her husband, a night watchman, what she should do. He recalled reading somewhere that "X ray and radium are no good for cancer." Friends recommended a healer, and she began the salve treatment. At first the lesion was only the size of a pencil eraser; after two years it had ulcerated her whole cheek. When she complained of extreme pain, the healer said: "That's fine. The salve's working, drawing out the cancer." When the woman finally got to Duke, her entire...
...active in church work. A third was a mountain farmer who, Horton reported, could "quote more Bible than any man I ever saw . . . We told him he didn't know what a cancer was, and he didn't." When told that he had cancer himself, the mountain healer went to Duke for treatment...