Word: fairly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the other big-drawing displays: a pondful of gleaming new boats, an avant-garde children's playground, the Macy-furnished ranch house, rows of shining 1959 cars, and the 360° Circarama film, a leftover from the Brussels World Fair, which has been updated by Walt Disney and fitted out with a Russian sound track. On opening day, uniformed girls handed out free Pepsi-Colas from gaily painted kiosks. More than 60,000 red begonia, white chrysanthemum and blue ageratum plants splashed color through the exhibits-not out of any special patriotic fervor, but because they...
Books off the Shelf. For the bedeviled director of the fair, Harold Chadick McClellan, a wealthy California manufacturer (paints and chemicals), former Assistant Secretary of Commerce and onetime president of the National Association of Manufacturers, the project was one unmitigated migraine. On top of his breakneck schedule and a niggardly allowance ($3,600,000) from Washington, he met daily opposition from all sides. The Kremlin vetoed the plan to distribute free Coty lipsticks. President Eisenhower's doubts about the top-heavily modern art show (TIME, July 13) prompted some changes. The Russians haggled like capitalistic stockbrokers over the rent...
...Saturdays, 9:30-10:30 a.m., E.D.T.) has it made. Last month the good captain got his first new set, an ark called the S.S. Treasure House; last week captain and crew alike made an overland trip to tape their show at the Minneapolis Aquatennial. All the winds are fair, and by fall, Captain Kangaroo will have a full supply of sponsors for the first time...
...Hollywood last week watched with a kind of critical apprehension. Surely, Horror Movie Expert William Castle, 45, had dreamed up a gimmick more devilish than that. He had. Seconds later, as the tingler was supposedly slithering across the screen, seats actually shivered and buzzed; the audience tingled for fair. Bill Castle had wired vibrators beneath almost everyone in the place...
...trade offensive has lost its wind both in the West and in Southeast Asia. In the first five months of 1959, the Red Chinese funneled $60 million worth of goods through Hong Kong to Southeast Asia, v. $80 million last year, and exports through Singapore fell 73%. The Canton fair held this spring rang up $79 million worth of trade; last year the total was $180 million...