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...Expo 74 is devoted to "celebrating tomorrow's fresh new environment" -and environmental planning had to begin at home. A tangle of railroad tracks, trestles, unsightly warehouses and a Skid Road in a 55-acre central city area were cleared for the Expo 74 site. Ramshackle structures on two islands in the Spokane River were also razed, and the polluted river was cleaned up so that now, surging green and foamy through the fair site, it is a major at traction, complete with falls that can be crossed by overhead gondolas...
...voice quavered, his hands tightly gripped the flower-bedecked lectern, and he occasionally mispronounced words. Still, cheers drowned out the boos when he said that he had furnished "all the relevant evidence" needed "to get Watergate behind us" and promised "to stay on this job." On Saturday, Nixon opened Expo '74 in Spokane, Wash., where he was welcomed with a few impeachment signs...
...exception of super-star Ken Singleton) when he sent Mike Marshall to the Dodgers for Willie Davis. While Walt Alston is busy smacking his lips, Mauch will have to depend on a staff that makes even Atlanta's hurlers look good, and that's bad news for die-hard Expo fans...
...learned earlier is now being thrust upon the Japanese moving into Hawaii: local residents often resent and fear a sudden pronounced rise in takeovers by foreigners. Some Hawaiians are deeply concerned, even though their own state government invited the splurge by spending $1,000,000 at Japan's Expo '70 in Osaka to promote investment in the islands...
...part of its Art Expo '72 program, the DeCordova invited any black and white or color photographer to submit works which they felt best represented the New England experience. Color photographers were urged to explore the terrain while black and white specialists were asked to concentrate on the people. Other than this, there were no stipulations. The results? Varied. The scope? Immense...