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...China's admission to the U.N. ("What is the good of calling a few people sitting on Formosa China?"). Then, moving on to Paris, he strongly pressured French Premier Guy Mollet to negotiate a cease-fire in Algeria. But when pressed for specific suggestions, Nehru retreated to Delphi. "I am Foreign Minister of India, not France or Algeria," he said...
...horizontal stripe"). But Poet Hall is very much alive, and alive to many things. He sings with grace in praise of his native New Hampshire, and he can celebrate his marriage and the birth of his son without seeming mawkish or losing a shred of dignity. A visit to Delphi is fastened into his experience with this finality...
...Oxford Street in Cambridge, Mass. lives a sibyl, a priestess of science. Her devotees take their problems to her as devout ancient Greeks took their insolubles to Delphi. She is no mumbling, anonymous priestess, frothing her mouth with riddles. Her name is Bessie*; she is a long, slim, glass-sided machine with 760,000 parts, and the riddles that are put to her and that she unfailingly answers concern such matters as rocket motors, nuclear physics and trigonometric functions...
...Wickard was growing beyond his own soil. Wickard began working in extension projects, traveling the State, talking to farmers. In Indiana, farm politics and State politics are often the same thing. In 1932 Wickard became Democratic precinct captain. A slim, dark young fellow, Wayne Coy, then publisher of the Delphi Citizen (now rapidly becoming President Roosevelt's No. 1 trouble-shooter), got Wickard's friends to persuade him to run for the State Senate. Wickard...
Dunkards, On the big Adam Blocher farm near Delphi, Ind. met 4,000 Dunkards, or Old Order German Baptist Brethren, in the 195th general meeting since their creedless, non-liturgical church was founded in eastern Pennsylvania in 1742. The women wore black bonnets, plain dresses, the men long beards and soup-bowl haircuts. Unabashedly, men obeyed St. Paul's admonition to "greet one another with a holy kiss." Only problem of import before the Dunkards last week was whether or not to allow radios in their homes, a matter which has come up every year since 1925. Though liberal...