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...contestants in Jerusalem made up an intriguingly mixed company. They included chipper Myrtle Davis, 49, Southern Baptist schoolteacher from Buford, Ga., who won the Bible quiz on the $64,000 Challenge; tiny Irene Santos, 39, a Seventh-day Adventist schoolteacher from Brazil; tall Roman Catholic Paul Guillamier, 19, of Malta, who brought his parish priest with him; matronly Protestant Convert Sara Rabinowitz of Mexico. These and the other contestants (representing Argentina, Colombia, Finland, France, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, South Africa, Sweden and Uruguay) were on hand for the big international Bible quiz, sponsored by an Israeli group to commemorate...
...with a special horn. Horn's function: to blow every hour, prevent his falling asleep too long. Boling left a parachute behind to save 25 Ibs.. stocked up on canned pears, apricot nectar and Fig Newtons. Special baggage: the white Bible his wife Joyce, a Seventh-day Adventist, carried on their wedding day. Over the lonely Pacific, Boling. son of a Baptist minister, put the plane on automatic pilot, thumbed his favorite Proverbs, e.g., "The eyes of the Lord are in every place...
...outer space: "No one who believes in the Bible," said Adventist Vice President A. L. Ham, "can doubt the ultimate reality of space travel...
...life: "Giving is living," said Parkin Christian, 74, great-great-grandson of Mutiny on the Bounty's Fletcher Christian. Rugged (6 ft. 3 in.) ex-Magistrate Christian heads the Adventist Church on Pitcairn Island (in the South Pacific), whose inhabitants are all Adventists. "If only receiving," he added...
...coming "end of the world": "In this atomic age," said Dr. Francis D. Nichol, editor of the Adventists' Review and Herald, "we hear frightened scientists and many others beginning to use a phrase that formerly appeared to be the monopoly of Adventist preachers...