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...just about every other language of the globe. Surrounded on one side by snowcapped mountains, on the other by chill Pacific waters, the San Francisco of Canada, as it is often called, now has an additional adornment, a world's fair. Open since the beginning of the month, Expo 86 is already a success by the most firmly pedestrian standard: crowds are standing in line to love...
There is, in fact, something for everybody at Expo, which is already being compared with the last Canadian fair, Montreal's popular Expo 67. Some 54 countries, nine Canadian provinces and territories, three American states (Washington, Oregon and California) and a dozen or more major companies have set up pavilions that emphasize the theme of the fair: transportation and communication...
...walking visitor can hop across continents by taking a boat down the Yangtze River, touching an exact model of the Soviet spaceship that ventured through Halley's comet and seeing John Lennon's flower-decorated Rolls-Royce. One of the chief delights of most visitors seems to be filling Expo passports with the stamps of each country. Children, adults, everyone wants a stamp. When the emblem of the Ivory Coast failed to arrive during the first week, a slim young woman in a long black-and-white dress made do by patiently writing in each book: "Cote d'Ivoire Pavillon...
...West Coast, a perennial favorite for vacationers, should attract more than the usual mob this season. Many families who are planning their vacations around Expo 86, the world's fair in Vancouver, B.C., will head down to the Pacific Northwest and California coasts. As a result, Seattle expects record crowds this summer. The city's Gray Line Tours reports that bookings on some of its trips are already up sixfold...
...Canada's Expo 86, which originally anticipated 13 million visitors, expects 7 million more as a result of terrorism fears, Davis said. "Instead of going to France, they'll visit the French pavilion" at the Expo, he said...