Word: expo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Eyed Wurlitzer. François Dallegret's La Machine is a far heftier entree. A Frenchman, now designing for Montreal's Expo 67, Dallegret has designed a device that looks like a giant metal steeplechase hurdle, weighs half a ton, and is priced at $27,000. It consists of two slender beams of anodized aluminum, 30 ft. long by 2 ft. high, braced between uprights. A cool piece of pure structure, the object has all the contemplative imagery of an I beam, but it has an inner electronic life. The narrow six-inch gap between the aluminum beams...
...assets of a world's fair are planning, imagination, architecture and money. All these are clearly beginning to show at Expo 67, the Canadian World's Fair now being built on a pair of islands, one man-made and one man-enlarged, in the St. Lawrence River opposite Montreal. Comparisons are inevitable with New York's fair, which was good fun, particularly in its imaginative displays of industrial show business, but never really made the grade. Unlike the New York Fair, Expo got accreditation from Paris' choosy Bureau of International Expositions, which demands that each nation...
...ironic since it is largely because of U.S. capital investment-$8 billion in the past decade-that the Canadian boom was launched. Much of that ignorance will be dissipated during 1967, Canada's centennial year, when Americans in considerable numbers will head north of the border to visit Expo 67, the Canadian world's fair in Montreal. Just how considerable is far from clear. Expo has counted on attracting 5,000,000 U.S. fairgoers, but its promotion has fallen badly short...
Visitors Welcome. Such concerns aside, Canada is justly proud of its achievements. Next year's centennial shivaree will symbolize this pride. It will be the longest and one of the most expensive birthday blowouts any nation has ever had. At the spectacular harbor site of Expo 67, on mainly manmade islands in the St. Lawrence River, the pavilions of 70 nations, which are now abuilding, will welcome visitors. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have already accepted invitations. The Parliament buildings in Ottawa will provide a backdrop for a May-to-October son et lumiere spectacle, and Sir Tyrone Guthrie...
Highway "hospitality booths" outside Seattle are staffed by hostesses who have direct lines to Expo-Lodging headquarters to help reservationless visitors find a place to stay. Sales of beds and mattresses have risen some 70% (best seller: hideaways) as every available nook and cranny in Seattle is converted into sleeping space...