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...Decision at Delphi, Maclnnes...
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...
...once had its own answer to the problem and called it Ed Murrow. During long, dull stretches, Murrow and any number of imitators would deliver what amounted to a Politics I course as taught at Delphi. But last week most of the students cut the course. Eyes raking remote high 'corners at the broadcasting booth, head cocked into a single earphone, Murrow gave the impression that he was listening more to the rulings of the Supreme Chairman than to the conversation of his fluent, competent colleague, Walter Cronkite. Murrow is still television's big news name...
...from the dirt four feet below street level. Archaeologists came on the run, uncovered a bronze Apollo, almost perfectly preserved, and worthy of the legendary sculptor Antenor, who lived in the 6th century B.C. The sculpture has much the same severity and grace that mark the bronze Charioteer at Delphi. It is a relic of the greatest moment in Greek art, when the archaic mold, adapted mainly from Egypt, began turning into the tender naturalism of the classical...