Word: delphi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industrialization is just beginning in earnest, the companies that have spread branches in Greece read like a Who's Who of international business: Germany's Krupp, Italy's Pirelli, France's Pechiney and Saint-Gobain. The U.S.'s Reynolds Metals is breaking ground near Delphi for a $59 million aluminum plant using Greece's ample reserves of bauxite, and Dow Chemical has opened a polystyrene plant at Lavrion, site of ancient Greek gold and silver mines. From the rocky perch near Athens where Xerxes once helplessly watched his mighty Persian armada being turned back...
Dempsey cites a string of achievements in education, job retraining, highways, and attracting nuclear research industries, calls his opponent's charges "Alsop's Fables." Alsop's retort: fabled Fabler Aesop was put to death by the citizens of Delphi for refusing to distribute money to them -because he found them grasping and greedy...
...Curse. In Lagerkvist's The Sibyl, Wandering Jew Ahasuerus also appeared, questioning an old priestess at Delphi about the meaning of the curse upon...
...Consent, Drury (2) 3. Hawaii, Michener (1) 4. A Burnt-Out Case, Greene (5) 5. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (4) 6. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (6) 7. Midcentury, Dos Passos (7) 8. Winnie Ille Pu, Milne (10) 9. China Court, Godden (9) 10. Decision at Delphi, Maclnnes / 1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1) ,/ 2. The New English Bible (2) 3. Fate Is the Hunter, Gann (3) ,/ 4. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (5) 5. Who Killed Society? Amory (4) 6. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, Parks f 7. Skyline...
...Decision at Delphi, Maclnnes...