Word: delphi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Decision at Delphi, Maclnnes...
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DECISION AT DELPHI, by Helen MacInnes (434 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $4.95), is a reasonably diverting romance that is not as taut as it should be because its tale of dark doings in Greece and Sicily is interleaved with too much travel gush. The author's proposition is that a band of left-of-Moscow terrorists in present-day Greece plans to set the Balkans afire by assassinating Marshal Tito. The wandering innocent who runs afoul of and eventually vanquishes these unpleasant plotters is an American architect named Strang. His wily adversary is a monster of plumbless evil who calls...
...Center for Advanced Study to bring together scholars, officials, politicians, businessmen and journalists-all of them sorely in need of a chance to see the forest for the trees. Under a plan costing $13 million in all, Brookings aims to create Washington's first real Delphi-a place for probing the hidden patterns of modern society and assuring the "intellectual preparedness" of key Americans...