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...handsome, snappily dressed Oklahoman, has personally asked him, in 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...
...praying. I will never rise until You speak to me." After several hours, he recounts, God ordered him to get up ("He spoke like a military commander"), get in his car, drive one block and turn right. As he started the right turn God gave him the healing power. Oral drove to the parsonage, ran into the house and shouted to his wife: "Evelyn, cook me a meal; the Lord has spoken...
When Sweezy refused to answer, he was declared in contempt of court and ordered confined until he answered. He was finally allowed out on bail, and his case will come up before the N. H. Supreme Court for oral arguments in September...
...language department would probably raise two objections to my suggestion that there be a more even balance between reading and speaking. One, that classes are too large to allow proper oral training. If this is so, then I say cut down the size of the classes and get more teachers. These teachers should be of the caliber proposed in your editorial...
Second, the department would probably answer that, if class time were devoted to oral instruction, the student would be jeopardized in passing the language requirement examination which is geared to testing grammatical and reading ability. Once the importance of oral training is conceded, it would be begging the question to raise this objection. The student could be tested orally and his grade then incorporated with his grade on the written examination as constituting his language requirement examination grade. An alternative solution might be in eliminating the "requirement" examination altogether, simply requiring a grade of B plus or higher...