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...explore the possibility of initiating a new U.N. peace-keeping action, the President flew to Canada where, after a desultory tour of Expo 67, he spent two hours with Prime Minister Lester Pearson, who won a Nobel Prize in 1957 for his post-Suez efforts to restore order to the Middle East. Johnson also conferred in Washington with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban. The President kept Eban cooling his heels for a full day in punishment for the fact that the Israelis had imprudently announced his plan to meet Johnson before clearing it with the White House...
Canada's Expo 67 may be the foremost fair of the year, but it is not the northernmost. Some 100 miles below the Arctic Circle, along a swift-flowing river where the cannonade of breaking ice lately echoed, Alaska last week opened its own centennial exposition and applied to it what sounded like a highway designation: "A-67." As Republican Governor Walter Hickel inaugurated the frosty fiesta on a 42-acre site in Fairbanks (pop. 19,000), the nation's 49th and biggest state was already well into a yearlong shivaree commemorating the 1867 purchase from Russia...
When they first hear the roar, visitors at Canada's Expo 67 look skyward, expecting to see a low-flying airplane. Instead, shooting spray from all sides, an ungainly contraption speeds by on the nearby St. Lawrence River, carrying 38 passengers on one of the fair's most popular rides. For most visitors, it is their first glimpse of the hovercraft, a British amphibious vehicle that suspends itself on a cushion of air and skims with equal ease over land, ice or water...
...brush over solid obstacles and high waves. The development of skirts converted the hovercraft from an experimental device into a practical means of transportation. The British Hovercraft Corp. has already built and sold seven-ton, 18-passenger hovercraft and nine-ton, 38-passenger models like those in operation at Expo 67. Both have a 4-ft. clearance. Two larger versions will soon come off the company's Isle of Wight production line: a 40-ton model that will carry eight autos and 160 passengers, and a 165-ton craft that will carry 32 autos and 250 passengers and have...
...long stuffed-and-sewn canvas loaf of raisin bread, with six detachable slices and 42 removable raisins; 2) a 12-ft.-tall, droopy white canvas "ghost fan" (its mate, a 12-ft.-tall black fan, wilts in mid-air beneath the space capsules at the top of Expo 67's U.S. pavilion); 3) platters bearing real Jell-O and real marzipan molds of the artist's face, cast thrice weekly by Manhattan's Tower Suite restaurant; 4) a collage made out of old cigarette butts; 5) sketches and models for "proposed colossal monuments," including...