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BORN. To S.E. (Susan) Hinton, 35, bestselling author of deromanticized novels for young adults (The Outsiders, Rumble Fish), and her husband David E. Inhofe, 35, mail-order businessman: their first child, a son; in Tulsa, Okla. Name: Nicholas David. Weight...
Oral Roberts, a smalltown, small-time Pentecostal Holiness preacher, swept out of the Oklahoma prairie in 1947, drawing legions of both disciples and scoffers. He is now an "ordained elder" in the United Methodist Church, presiding over Tulsa's 4,200-student Oral Roberts University and hosting a weekly TV show seen on 241 stations in the U.S. and abroad, and on a religious cable network. Total weekly audience in the U.S.: 3 million. Roberts occasionally appears on a prime time program as well. He is also trying to complete the $250 million City of Faith medical center. Last...
...while, it seemed unlikely that Richard Roberts would follow his father on the sawdust trail. As a rebellious teenager, Richard told Oral: "Get out of my life and never mention religion to me again." Richard left Tulsa and shunned his father's Bible-centered university. While enrolled at the University of Kansas, he sang with rock bands. But he felt "a voice inside me" tugging him back to his father's school. There, he says, two weeks shy of his 20th birthday, "God got ahold of my life...
Recruiting for all four services combined is running at 101% of authorized goals, having reached 338,200 last year. (Overall military strength last year was 2.1 million.) "We've been closing out our quotas halfway through the month," says Sergeant Larry Soper, an Army recruiter in Tulsa. The retention rate is now so high (68% of those finishing their tours in fiscal 1982 reupped, and the percentage is even higher this year) that the services are refusing some re-enlistment applications and reducing annual recruiting targets. "They come in here and say to us, 'I want this...
...profits are being squeezed. International Minerals and Chemical, a major fertilizer maker in Northbrook, Ill., will earn only about $3 per share this year, compared with $4.56 last year, according to Dean Witter Reynolds Analyst George Krug. He thinks that the Williams Cos., a big fertilizer producer in Tulsa, Okla., will earn about $1.50 this year, down from $3.32 in 1981. One saving note: since farmers expect higher prices, they plan to use extra fertilizer on the acreage they plant this year to increase productivity...