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...Road. Roberts promptly moved to Tulsa and set up headquarters. From then on, he 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...
...silence and whispered: "Listen! I hear those seagulls now." Once Carter emerged from an all-afternoon session with President Franklin Roosevelt and announced triumphantly: "I got my five feet." Carter had talked F.D.R. into adding five feet on to the Government's proposed mile-long Convair plant, because Tulsa was about to get an aircraft plant a mile long and Carter wanted Fort Worth's to be bigger...
...Effective. Of those who received vaccine, only 57 developed polio. Of these, only one died: Patricia Redick, 8, of Tulsa. She received her first shot in April, then had her tonsils out, got a second shot in May and died two weeks later. In Patricia's case, two things were wrong: the vaccinations were too late, because Oklahoma's early polio season had already begun, and it has long been known that a tonsillectomy is dangerous when polio threatens. Proportionately, there were 2½ times as many polio cases (142) among children who received dummy shots as among...
Proper Climate. In Tulsa, the Jenkins appliance store filled its display windows with air conditioners, watched a blizzard drop temperatures from springlike warmth to a record low for the date, posted an abject apology: "Sorry for the change . . . We left one of those conditioners on over the weekend...
Phillip R. Burnaman '56, of Eliot House and Tulsa, Okla, succeeds Kenneth Culbert as captain of the varsity wrestling team...