Word: expo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EXPO OBSERVED (NBC, 9-10 p.m.)- Edwin Newman turns guide and critic for a tour of Montreal's Expo...
...explained Connecticut's Earl Ferrin, father of three. "We couldn't afford it using motels." Ferrin, who had not camped a day in his life until last year, when he converted a 60-passenger school bus, is planning to pack his family along to Montreal's Expo 67 this summer...
...Expo 67 can miss seeing the U.S. pavilion. The 20-story geode sic dome looms like a rising sun over the 1,000-acre site on the St. Lawrence; the heavily traveled minirail zips right through it, and every day an aver age of 5,000 people an hour line up to get in. Unquestionably, Architect Buckminster Fuller's bubble is a huge success; but the high-camp, soft-sell show inside is quite another matter. For in choosing to combine levity with patriotism, the designers of the U.S. exhibit have let themselves in for a scorching controversy...
...wanted it to be low key, not full of chest-beating technology," says Terry Rankine, one of the Seven. "We took very much to heart the request of Expo officials that it should not be made into a trade fair. We didn't want exhibits to say that 'our ball bearings are better than theirs.' We wanted to show the craftsmanship, inventiveness and creativity of the American people...
Truman is scheduled to tour Expo 67 in Montreal at the end of the month, but sources indicate that he is planning a surprise stop in New England along...