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Flying Squad. What Lauderdale was tired of, Daytona wanted-and it began a campaign to attract the collegians for the 1962 holidays. Daytona City Commissioner Stanley Nass got civic groups to agree to "welcome the youngsters, leave them alone and let them entertain themselves with the facilities we have." The city appropriated an extra $12,000 for its recreation fund. Nass hired Jazzman Dave Brubeck for a show, got together a music-making group called the Folksters, gave them a truck and made them a "flying squad." Last week, whenever Nass got a report that the boys and girls were...
...tidiness that will make it less tiresome than most world's fairs-and a core of common sense that reflects the Northwest's reluctance to waste its assets. When it closes on Oct. 21, most of its best features will remain to form a permanent $50 million civic center. Says Fair President Joseph E. Gandy, a former auto dealer who has promoted the fair over some 1,000,000 miles from Puget Sound to Tokyo to Paris: "Eighty-five percent of every construction dollar has been permanently invested here. We felt it was economically immoral to spend...
...decorative gimmicks, not only serves as one of the fair's chief display areas, but will be used later for sports events (capacity: 20,000) and, Seattle hopes, national political conventions. A 3,100-seat opera house, built in the shell of Seattle's grimy old civic auditorium and lined with cherrywood and Italian marble, not only presents ballet and music to fairgoers (last week's opening night gala had Igor Stravinsky, the Seattle Symphony and Van Cliburn), but will serve as a new Seattle music center...
...mine, shoots jets 100 ft. into the air, and presents 20-minute programs of changing shapes, colors and music. Also to be preserved after the fair: an 800-seat theater, a 5,500-seat arena for circuses and ice shows, a monorail transit system linking the whole fair-civic center to the heart of the city...
Demonstrations and rallies took place and the country yesterday to support anti-HUAC demonstrations by Angeles area students. In San Frank however, 400 students attended both for and against the Committee in the Civic Auditorium, near the of the May 1960 riots...