Word: expo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stunning photographs of Expo 67 [May 5] and the informative article on the exposition have created an impression most of the press has failed to relay. I am sure many people are now convinced that Expo is a show that will never be duplicated and shouldn't be missed...
...Canadian working in the U.S. I read "Canada Discovers Itself" with interest, enjoyment and inner laughter, for the piece portrays the feelings of most Canadians factually, humorously, and with candor. Expo 67 will accomplish in one giant stride what Canada has struggled to accomplish for so long: to become a fully recognized country on her own merits as a power in the world's arena...
...bound to happen, Expo 67's first week produced a mini-multitude of bizarre snafus and sundry irritations...
Surpassing the Records. "We're in a hell of a mess-but isn't it great!" crowed Deputy Commissioner General Robert F. Shaw. For the real reason behind most of Expo's first-week foul-ups was the magnitude of its success. No one had come even close to gauging the fair's capacity for drawing crowds. Indeed, so big and so eager were the early Expo hordes that they did not spin the turnstiles far enough to allow carbon brushes to make the contacts necessary to send electrical impulses to the computers Counting attendance...
...when Besner and his group met the Russian ship Bucyra. They were ominously surrounded by about 30 "very tough-looking" Russian sailors and escorted to the captain's cabin. Recalls Besner: "For hours, we drank toasts in vodka to the Hermitage, the Pushkin Museum, to Montreal, Moscow, Leningrad, Expo, Prime Minister Pearson, peace, understanding, love, and I don't know what else, except that there were a lot of broken glasses and it was deep night when we emerged...