Word: delphi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...omens for the forthcoming Apollo 11 moon shot than the 3,000-year-old temple of the original Apollo? So off went Wernher von Broun, the man who directed the design of the rocket that will hurl American astronauts toward the moon this month, to visit the temple at Delphi. "Whatever Apollo's oracle said," reported Von Braun after the consultation, "I am convinced that we will succeed because no other space operation was ever so well prepared in advance." But what did the oracle predict? "The oracle," he said cosmically, "was ambiguous, as usual...
...Americans thus joined the distinguished tradition of the Romans and Turks who first adopted the vaucs of classical Greece and then, directly or indirectly, occupied the land of the Delphi because it happened to be a strategic piece of real estate
...Aegean Sea. For the first time, tourists will have an alternative to bumping from site to site by bus. Instead, ruin viewers can sail the wine-dark sea in comfort on a scenic three-day cruise (for from $75 to $160) aboard the Meltemi, which stops at ports near Delphi, Epidaurus and Corinth...
...Instant Delphi. He masked up for Truman Capote's ball, has escorted Jacqueline Kennedy to the movies, helped Norman Mailer celebrate the opening of his play, The Deer Park. "Any party with Arthur Schlesinger and me in it," proclaims perpetual Starlet Monique Van Vooren, "can't be a failure." True enough and, like the Bell Telephone Hour, Schlesinger now hits all notes from classical to pop-with not a note dropped or a cadenza slighted along...
...trot and froth (he has yet to learn to frug). Magazines besiege him for articles, TV producers beg him to open his mind before the big eye, colleges beseech him to lecture. Reporters solicit his opinions on all manner of subjects, making him sometimes sound like Instant Delphi...