"Expect a miracle," Faith Healer Oral Roberts exhorts his TV congregations, and he practices what he preaches. When he quit the gospel big top to build himself a university (TIME, Feb. 7), Roberts set his heart on a national basketball championship. Lo, last week there was Oral Roberts University in the quarter-finals of the National Invitation Tournament at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. During the game between O.R.U. and St. John's University, St. John's star Mel Davis had to be carried off the courts with torn tendons in his right knee. Good Samaritan Roberts strode into the St. John's dressing room to...
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