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Though himself a college dropout, he is president of Oral Roberts University, a $30 million. 500-acre campus in Tulsa, Okla., which in only six years of existence has won full accreditation from the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Though for two decades he conducted his crusades as a minister of the Pentecostal Holiness Church, Roberts was accepted as a United Methodist minister in 1968. This week he will be one of the guest speakers at a Catskill Mountain retreat for Methodist clergymen from New York...
...also become a pillar of the Tulsa community. He is a director of the Tulsa Chamber of Commerce and of one of the city's largest banks. He belongs to Rotary. His operations are vast. Besides supporting the 1,400-student university, the Oral Roberts Evangelistic Association publishes a monthly magazine called Abundant Life (circ. 1,200,000) and a quarterly inspirational guide called Daily Blessing (circ. 400,000), plans his television shows, and promotes his radio program to 165 stations. All together, the Roberts empire generates more mail than any other Tulsa concern, including Shell...
...popularity of Kennedy with the younger generation. I am a high school student, but I see only a facade of the Kennedy face. Ted Kennedy is merely a boy masquerading with the face and accent of an honorable family that before has produced real men. BARBARA J. VERVILLE Tulsa...
...officials at the U.N. took Washington's rebuke seriously, since the Chinese speech contained no surprises for anyone informed on international politics. "That speech of Chiao's has a different echo in Tulsa than in New York," explained one official of the U.S. delegation. "What the Chinese said may have been expected by some, but it was new to many Americans...
Diplomatic Service. Halaby's defenders point out that difficulties were developing long before he came aboard. The airline has never had any "feeder" routes within the continental U.S. to link up with its extensive international network. By contrast, TWA can move passengers in its own planes from Tulsa to Tel Aviv. Even such "domestic" carriers as American, Braniff and Eastern have international routes to the Caribbean, Canada or Latin America. Under Pan Am's founder, Juan Trippe, now honorary board chairman, the airline took on unprofitable routes in Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe at least partly...