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Richard Roberts follows father Oral down the sawdust trail...
...Brown County Veterans Memorial Arena in Green Bay, Wis., one of the latest practitioners on the circuit bears the most magical surname of them all. The handsome man with the well-rounded baritone voice and well-tailored suit is the Rev. Richard Roberts, 34, son and heir presumptive of Oral Roberts. Young Roberts is now ardently working the road that his father, 65, forsook when he folded his Gospel tent in favor of healing via TV in 1968. This year Richard Roberts will be preaching and healing in 42 U.S. cities, as well as in South Africa, Taiwan, Norway...
...Oral Roberts, a smalltown, small-time Pentecostal Holiness preacher, swept out of the Oklahoma prairie in 1947, drawing legions of both disciples and scoffers. He is now an "ordained elder" in the United Methodist Church, presiding over Tulsa's 4,200-student Oral Roberts University and hosting a weekly TV show seen on 241 stations in the U.S. and abroad, and on a religious cable network. Total weekly audience in the U.S.: 3 million. Roberts occasionally appears on a prime time program as well. He is also trying to complete the $250 million City of Faith medical center. Last...
From the start, Oral Roberts believed that God worked in a miraculous way through his hands, which he fervently placed upon each ailing petitioner who stood in the famous prayer line at his meetings. His son, whose style is far less electric, rarely does any laying on of hands. Richard Roberts, a minister of the United Evangelical Church, simply asks those who are receiving healing to come into the aisles and give their reports to aides carrying microphones. He often announces specific cures as-he claims-they happen: "Someone is receiving a healing in the right ear, right...
...given for each lycée track. The typical exam schedule involves ten hours of tests over a two-week period. All written exams are of the essay type (sample question: "Compare and contrast the roads to power of Hitler and Mussolini"), and most bacs culminate in an oral exam. To enter the grandes écoles, students must take another set of tests called concours, which generally demand an additional two years of preparation. The time is often well spent: if a student graduates from a grande école, he is virtually assured a good job and comfortable station...