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...says, "the thing mushroomed." Today, in a modern, air-conditioned building in Tulsa, an office staff of 155 keeps tab on Roberts' highly organized Healing Waters Inc., using row upon row of files and machines to sort and answer thousands of letters that pour in daily, handling magazine, tract and book distribution and keeping books on the evangelist's thriving financial affairs. On the road, another staff of twelve rolls across country in eight stainless-steel truck trailers. Their cargo: a 200-by-360-ft. tent that Roberts claims is the largest evangelistic tent in the world...
...Congress and President Pierce called it "the Government Hospital of the Insane." But it was set on an Anacostia tract long known...
...told, there are some 14 colleges entered in the meet, which is scheduled to begin about 12:30. The races, everything from a 440-yard relay to a four-mile relay, will be the most exciting, but probably the most interesting event from a tract point of view is the college hammer throw, entered by Yale's Stew Thompson and Tom Henderson; Don Selfert of Brown; Nat Baker of Boston University; and John Morefield of M.I.T. Thompson is the favorite, but it should be close...
ARGENTINE oil lands will soon be opened up to U.S. companies. To solve his nation's chronic fuel problem (60% imported), President Juan Perón is ready to sign a deal for Standard Oil of California to develop a 23,000-sq.-mi. tract in Santa Cruz Territory south of the 48th Parallel; Standard of California will sell its oil on the domestic market first, be able to export any surplus. Similar agreements totaling $200 million will also be signed this month with Shell Oil and Standard Oil (NJ.) to develop another huge tract in the Neuquen area...
...deal involved Algom Uranium Mines, Ltd., a company controlled by Hirshhorn and associates, which for two years has been developing rich uranium claims in a 3O-mile-square tract of land in Canada's Blind River summer-resort area, just north of Lake Huron. Under the deal a group of international mining and financial interests, headed by Britain's Rio Tinto Co., Ltd. (whose chairman...