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Religion

The Genesis Flood by Washington, D.C.-born Indiana evangelical theologian John C. (Clement) Whitcomb, 37, and Dallas-born civil engineer Henry M. (Morris) Morris (Jr.), 42, tries to refute Darwinian ideas of evolution; the book will have wide influence on creationists, who share the belief of those 19th-century critics of Charles Darwin who asserted that scripture should be interpreted literally.

Moral Re-Armament founder Frank Buchman dies at Freudenstadt, Germany, August 7 at age 83 and is buried at Allentown, Pa.