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From wrinkled bills to neatly creased $100 checks, donations poured into the Rev. Oral Roberts' sleek Tulsa headquarters last week. Cash and pledges have arrived in a steady stream over the past fortnight, at a rate of more than $160,000 each day. That was the good news. But there was also the bad news: a television channel in Washington dumped two January episodes of his 30-minute telecast. Seven other outlets, including stations in Tulsa and Dallas, are now monitoring each of the United Methodist preacher's syndicated shows to see if they fit the stations' standards. The Tulsa...
...source of all the fuss was a Jan. 4 Roberts program. Surrounded by white-coated students, the evangelist launched into an appeal for money so that graduates of the medical school of Oral Roberts University, his 22-year- old institution in Tulsa, can serve in overseas missions. Viewers were urged to send at least $100 apiece during the next three months to help reach a goal of $4.5 million. Then Roberts dropped a bombshell. If donations fell short, said the 68-year-old preacher, God would strike him down. "I'm asking you to help extend my life," he said...
Aides to the evangelist denied that Roberts' sensational new appeal indicated financial problems in his spiritual empire. The ultramodern buildings of the 4,650-student university and adjacent medical complex are largely debt free, but obtaining enough income to keep the enterprises operating has proved difficult. The Tulsa Tribune reported last year that the voracious money demands of the hospital, clinic and research center were nearly twice Roberts' projections in the first year and continue to strip the university endowment and squeeze faculty income...
...seemed as if the good times would go on forever. As the price of fuel soared through the 1970s, the economies of oil-rich regions, from Texas and Oklahoma to Wyoming and Alaska, exploded. The frantic growth fed on itself: in Tulsa, Houston and Denver, skylines seemed to sprout overnight. The new wealth was intoxicating, making giddy millionaires out of young geologists, and inspiring dentists to become oil barons. Says Texas Historian T.R. Fehrenbach: "Oil was a big hot flash of money...
...advanced, led by No. 3 Kentucky. The Wildcats mauled Davidson 75-55, No. 4 St. John's downed Montana State 83-74, No. 5 Michigan held off Akron 70-64, No. 9 Syracuse buried brown 101-52, No. 11 Nevada-Las Vegas swamped Northeast Louisiana 74-51 Navy whipped Tulsa 87-68 and No. 19 Illinois walloped Fairfield...