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Died. Sir Leonard Woolley, 79, British archaeologist whose excavations uncovered important portions of ancient Middle East civilizations, including the city of Ur in Iraq, from which Abraham started out to found the Hebrew nation; in London...
...California entrepreneurs who last week announced plans for a Biblical version of Disneyland that should render much coin unto Caesar. Built in the shape of a heart ("symbolic of God's love") and subdivided into six freewheeling reproductions of the Garden of Eden, Rome, Babylon, Israel, Egypt and Ur, the amusement park is scheduled to open Easter Sunday 1961, when tens of thousands can be expected to make the 4O-mile, eight-cylinder pilgrimage from Los Angeles to the site at Cucamonga...
...David and Goliath Slingshot Galleries. But, say the promoters, "above all else, Bible Storyland will be a happy place." One of the gayer rides will take paid customers to heaven -in a gold litter drawn by a team of cherubs. From the air, the "Shrine of Faith Plaza," Ur and the caravan route will be laid out to "form the cross of Jesus Christ...
...Ur-Continent. Lamont men think the cracks may be proof that the continents indeed drifted away from each other, and are still drifting. Dr. Ewing recalled a theory of Venig Meinesz, who suggested that the early earth may have lacked the dense central core that it has today. Its hot, fluid inside material could circulate unhampered in a single "cell," rising to the surface on one side of the sphere and sinking down on the opposite side after cooling by radiation into space and getting heavier. When this had gone on long enough, all the light rock on the earth...
According to The Book of Jubilees, Abraham's father, Terah, made small clay images which Abraham as a boy peddled in the street. Author Hill gives in detail an imaginary account of a trip by the boy Abraham to the great ziggurat of Ur, to present to the priests one of his best doves as a sacrifice to the city's patron deity, Nannar, the moon...