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Electronic billboards posted about the grounds tripped on their own electrical connections, produced tongue-twisting typographical errors. The most embarrassing were the signs touting FLOKLORE OF ETHKOPIA while Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I was touring the site. At India's pavilion, someone stole the trunk of a clay elephant, and the sturgeons in the Soviet pavilion pool had to thrash about to dodge hundreds of pennies visitors tossed at them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Expositions: Snafus of Success | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

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