Word: fairings
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...reputation as the "Selma of the North." In 1983 the Justice Department sued the Chicago suburb for housing and job discrimination, and last week Cicero's town board finally agreed to change its ways. Bowing to a consent decree, the town will adopt a fair-housing resolution and eliminate its rule against hiring only residents for municipal jobs. Few observers were impressed. Said the N.A.A.C.P.'s Mel Ford Jordan: "It is an action consistent with 1860, which for Cicero is progressive." Town President Henry Klosak, noting that Cicero has been subject to federal, state and local civil rights laws...
...ANNEE! And so it is, in English, French and 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...
...most serene big cities in North America, as well as one of the most polite. Its climate, much like Seattle's, is cool and moist and is as hospitable to tourists as it is to flowers, the regiments of tulips and carpets of pansies that are seen everywhere. The fair's original purpose was to mark the centennial of the opening of the Canadian transcontinental railway. A more practical goal was to boost the ailing economy of British Columbia. But now it is benefiting from a larger circumstance. In a world frightened by terrorism, this international gathering stretched out along...
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...
...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." Who knows? That may be the fair's most treasured souvenir...