Word: expo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Drink Canada dry. Visit Expo 67." "Do the Chinese look in the White Pages?" "Goodnight, David . . . Goodnight, Goliath...
...Kaneko has turned the out-of-the-way, largely agricultural prefecture of Kagawa into an architectural showplace and art center, and he has become ,known far and wide as the "design chiji [governor]." For the Takamatsu library, he brought in Yoshinobu Ashihara, architect for Japan's pavilion at Expo 67. Professor Junzo Yoshimura, original architect of Emperor Hirohito's new palace in Tokyo, managed the restoration of the exquisite Moon-Scooping Pavilion, built by Matsudaira...
Incredibly, Expo hit that figure just seven days after it opened. With their bollixed-up computers, officials figured the total by rounding off the counts of departing passengers compiled from subways, buses, autos and taxis. On its first Sunday, 569,500 passed the gates-a total that surpassed every one-day world's fair record ever set (New York's 1939-40 show drew 492,446 one day; the 1964-65 pulled 446,953 on its best-and last...
...thing I'm enjoying most is the happy faces, the excitement, as the people stream in," said one Expo official. "You can design things well and execute them well. But the one thing you can't plan is fun." Expo 67 seems to have plenty of that...
Critics & Crowds. Naturally, there were also record-breaking queues for restaurants (caused partly by too-small kitchen facilities), rest rooms (the Soviets' ladies' room had but two cubicles), and intra-Expo transportation (the mini-rail was so popular that some visitors wanted to spend all their time just riding on it, and officials are now considering imposing a time limit). Montreal's Metro was so jammed that guards had to close down one station because of the panicky crush; workmen hurriedly placed another 500 trash cans on Expo's grounds to hold the extra refuse...