Word: exhibited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small, the spirit of protest seemed omnipresent. The opening ceremonies alone escaped. When President Johnson spoke at the Federal Pavilion, voices (most of them belonging to white teenagers) interrupted his speech with barely comprehensible cries of "freedom, freedom." James Farmer, cattle-prod in hand, was arrested at the Louisiana exhibit, and protesters forced the Missouri display to close...
Like the great Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851, the New York World's Fair unveiled the wonderful wizardry of a materialistic age, as Bell Telephone Company, IBM, General Electric, and an exhibit appropriately called "The Festival of Gas" tried to out-automate one another. The ever-present picket lines were themselves a prime exhibit, however, raising social questions that found expression elsewhere in the Fair...
...American behemoths, General Motors and Ford, took the visitor on a tour of the future, presaging the day when man will more completely control his environment. Typically, G.M. was predicting at mid-day that its Futurama Exhibit would attract the most visitors of any at the Fair...
...third annual Prison Art Show and Sale opens today in the Holyoke Center Information Office at 20 Dunster St. Paintings and sculpture by inmates of five Massachusetts correctional institutions will be on exhibit from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., through Saturday...
Critics cavil that not enough countries are represented at the New York World's Fair. Such critics, said Robert Moses, 75, offhandedly plucking a barb from the bulrushes, wonder why there is no exhibit from such as "the Sultan of Kuwait with his bottomless oil, Cadillacs, harems, heat, sand flies and camel dung." That kind of joke is as old as Moses, but tiny Kuwait was not amused. "Grossly unfactual references," said Talat Al-Ghoussein, Kuwait's Ambassador to the U.S., in a stiff note to the Fair president. Oil there is, to be sure...