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...nurse and a Christian, I find it difficult to believe that God would direct Oral Roberts to build an edifice such as the City of Faith [Nov. 16] in Tulsa, a metropolis already overloaded with hospital beds. Surely He would have selected a more deserving location, like Mother Teresa's mission in Calcutta...
Placekicker--Tony Jones, Yale, 6-4, 193, Senior, Tulsa, Okla...
Local politicians, ex-Football Star Roosevelt Grier, and Evangelists Rex Humbard and Pat Robertson attended. Barbara Mandrell sang the national anthem. There was a congratulatory letter from President Reagan. The festivities in Tulsa last week preceded not the kickoff of a football game but the opening of the City of Faith, the $150 million medical complex that Evangelist Oral Roberts claims he built on direct orders from...
...triple-tower glass-and-steel complex, on an 80-acre site adjacent to Oral Roberts University in south Tulsa, houses a research center, diagnostic clinic and 294-bed hospital containing the latest medical gadgetry, including computerized patient records. There are such amenities as concealed bottles to collect patients' body fluids, and redesigned gowns so that, as one staff member put it, "you're not hanging around with your fanny sticking...
...divine instructions was not easy. Roberts tells of devilish obstructions. On a visit to Israel, he says, Satan attempted to tumble him into the Sea of Galilee. There were mundane problems as well. Donations flagged, and local and federal groups objected to the project on grounds that Tulsa was already overloaded with hospital beds...