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Oral Roberts, 68, of Tulsa, the century's most famed faith healer, has a TV flock that helped build the 4,600-student Oral Roberts University and the 294- bed City of Faith hospital and research center. The City of Faith is rumored to be in financial straits, but Roberts will divulge no details. The overall budget of his enterprises reportedly runs to $120 million. Roberts' Sunday half-hour still appears in 192 markets, but the "Prairie Tornado" is showing his age. The spotlight is shifting to a daily talk show inaugurated in 1984 to star Son and Heir Apparent...
Though the well's majority owner, Phillips Petroleum Co., quietly closed down Petunia's oil production last April, for public relations purposes Phillips will continue to tap the well's small yield of natural gas. Thus, as the Tulsa Tribune put it, "Oklahoma still has a distinction as a capitol: two sources of gas, one underground and one in the legislature...
...Merle Haggard into the tapedeck, pound your fist and sing along: "Take me back to Tulsa, I'm too young to marry. Take me back to Tulsa, I'm too young to wed thee." For some reason you start thinking about your girlfriend's neck. You've been singing along, having a good ole time, then you start to cry just thinking about your girlfriend's neck. "Her neck," you sob, flipping on the wipers. "Oh, man! I miss her...lousy...n-neck...
Elsewhere, reactions were much the same. "I just hope they're not beating people, like they say they are," said Pete Lazansky of Tulsa, whose parents were on board. Other passengers included Kathryn Davis and her fiance James Hoskins Jr., both 22 and from Indianapolis, whose parents had given them European vacations as college graduation presents. "I was going to pick her up this evening," said Stockbroker Stephen Davis of his daughter. "We just sit here and wait." In Florissant, Mo., Katharine Ellerbrock tuned in a morning TV show and realized that she was listening to the recorded voice...
...more than two decades, starting in 1948 in a Y.M.C.A. in Tulsa, Jones toyed with the idea of a better way to lift weights. While working out with % barbells, he concluded that they are inefficient because they do not correctly apply resistance during an exercise. After many of Jones' experimental rigs failed, the machine that he finally displayed at a Los Angeles fitness show in 1970 solved the problem by employing oddly shaped pulleys that keep a variable amount of resistance on a person's muscles during an entire exercise motion...