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A Tulsa traffic cop called it the biggest traffic jam since Dick Nixon's 1960 campaign visit. Close to 25,000 people -in 10,000 cars-turned out when Evangelist Billy Graham, 48, came to town to help fellow evangelist and millionaire, Oral Roberts, 49, dedicate his new Oral...
President Millard Roberts of Iowa's Parsons College (TIME, Aug. 29, 1960) has plenty of ideas about education-some good, some bad. He believes that teachers should be well-paid, that even students with poor high school records should have a chance at higher education, and that colleges should...
Since taking over in 1955 as president of Parsons, once a financially starved Presbyterian school, Roberts has methodically carried out his program for success. He increased Parsons' enrollment from 212 to 4,900, and upped student fees from $1,030 a year to $1,160 a trimester. Roberts has...
Most U.S. educators have long looked with suspicion on Roberts' fiscal-minded approach to running a college, and last week the North Central Associ ation of Colleges and Secondary Schools voted to revoke Parsons' accreditation. The association did not explain its reasons, but other investigators have unearthed evidence...
Snickering Critics. No one gets more satisfaction from the new products than Ampex President William E. Roberts, 52. Once the No. 2 man at Bell & Howell, Roberts joined Ampex in 1961 after the loosely managed company had tumbled deep into the red. Many of Roberts' remedies were routine: he...