Born. To Abbie Hoffman, 34, self-styled revolutionary, and Anita Hoffman, 29, fellow anarchist: first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: america.

Died. Van Heflin, 60, performer in more than 50 films and on the Broadway stage; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. The rough-hewn actor with the jutting jaw and the gravelly voice scored his first big Broadway success in The Philadelphia Story (1939). From his 1942 Oscar-winning performance as the drunken newspaper reporter in Johnny Eager to his portrayal of the longshoreman in Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge (1955), to his role as the mad bomber in last year's Airport, Heflin managed to avoid the typecasting that plagues many actors.

Died. William Tubman, 75, ruler of Liberia since 1944 (see THE WORLD).

Died. Gerald P. Nye, 78, Republican Senator from North Dakota for 19 years and one of the nation's foremost isolationists; in Washington, D.C. A crusading country editor and partisan of 1924 Progressive Party Presidential Candidate Robert La Follette, Nye was appointed to fill a Senate vacancy in 1925. He arrived on Capitol Hill sporting bulbous yellow shoes and an "oaken-bucket haircut," but soon dispelled the notion that he was a bumpkin: he used his seat on the Public Lands Committee to expose the Teapot Dome oil-lease scandal. A steadfast foe of America's entry into World War II, he popularized the phrase "merchants of death" to describe munitions makers, later was one of the drafters of the 1936 Neutrality Act barring U.S. aid to belligerents.

Died. Lord Astor of Hever, 85, patriarch of the Astor family's British branch, and between 1922 and 1959 publisher of the London Times; of heart disease; in Cannes, France. A great-great-grandson of the American fur trader who founded the family fortune, John Jacob Astor V began his 23-year career in the House of Commons in 1922, the same year he bought control of the Times. Elevated to the peerage in 1956, he eventually left Britain to escape heavy death duties.

Died. Harry W. Morrison, 86, co-founder and former chairman of one of the world's largest construction companies, Morrison-Knudsen Co., Inc., of a stroke; in Boise, Idaho. Though he was only 27, hard-hustling Morrison talked himself into a partnership with 50-year-old Contractor Morris Knudsen in 1912. Their starting capital of $600 in cash was pyramided into a global $500 million-a-year building concern. Among Morrison's construction triumphs: Hoover Dam and portions of the St. Lawrence Seaway.

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