Word: delphi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greeks be persuaded to work harder? "Ban chairs in coffeehouses." How can tourism be encouraged in Greece? "This summer thousands of foreigners will cross our frontiers. Some will be concerned only with antiquity, others with the contemporary. Personal tastes will keep one traveler from going to Delphi, another from seeing Olympia; but everyone will be going to the lavatory. The nation's lavatories must be improved so that all those freshly scrubbed people will not turn up their noses...
...published under her maiden name, Helen MacInnes, became a runaway bestseller and a first-rate film. Since then, periodically and with unhurried ease, she has sat down with pencil and paper and turned out such bestselling yarns of international intrigue as Assignment in Brittany, North from Rome, Decision at Delphi and The Venetian Affair. All told, her twelve novels have sold more than 4,000,000 copies and have been translated into 19 languages. Five have been sold to the movies...
...fairly arcane. Defense Expert Herman Kahn, for instance, uses "scenario writing," in which various alternative future situations are dramatized. Some forecasters use computers to produce a symbolic "model" of particular social or economic structures-including whole industries or nations-and then simulate the interaction of variables. Rand uses the "Delphi" method, in which a wide range of experts are queried and re-queried for their forecasts, arriving finally at a near-consensus. Prognosticators concede that the timing and nature of pure inventions or basic breakthroughs-such as the achievement of atomic fission-are not predictable. In many cases, they must...
...hovercraft that ride on air. Planes carrying 1,000 passengers and flying just under the speed of sound will of course be old hat. The new thing will be transport by ballistic rocket, capable of reaching any place on earth in 40 minutes. In Rand's Delphi study, 82 scientists agreed that a permanent lunar base will have been established long before A.D. 2000 and that men will have flown past Venus and landed on Mars...
MELINA MERCOURI'S GREECE (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Including a wedding on Crete, the Acropolis, Athens, the Parthenon, Delphi, and the old Byzantine community of Mistras, with music by Manos Hadjidakis and singing by Miss Mercouri. Color...