Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beyond this, the city has good reason to pick a fair as its 250th birthday present to itself. For what the city has really accomplished is urban renewal under the guise of a carnival, with the Federal Government paying a portion of the bill. Already the $158 million fair has turned 147 acres of downtown San Antonio "from slum to jewel box," as Texas' Governor John Connally puts it, provided the city with a permanent new $13.5 million Civic Center and contributed an impressive symbol of progress in the 622-ft.-high Tower of the Americas, tallest observation tower...
Seizing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to inject new life into the city core, San Antonio has dredged out a short waterway linking the fair to the San Antonio River and threaded the 92.6-acre HemisFair site itself with a network of canals. It has refurbished its heritage by restoring 24 fine 19th century Victorian houses on the fairgrounds, and the area adjacent bristles with new construction, including the 445-room Hilton Palacio Del Rio, which overlooks HemisFair from the bank of the San Antonio River...
...designer, Allison Peery, meaning that all the exhibits are within easy walking distance. On the elevated "people expressway," no point is more than a ten-minute walk from any other, and for variety there are flower-bedecked barges plying the canals, a minimonorail, and that familiar world's fair fixture, the Swiss Skyride, lofting fairgoers 80 ft. in the air from one edge of the grounds to the other. Pure Texas: the massive outdoor air conditioners that cool off the busiest walkways, rest areas and queues...
...beginning, weathermen talked so much about "occluded fronts" and "thermal inversions" that viewers wondered if they shouldn't start building an ark in the backyard. Then came the era of fair-weather girls. Preoccupied with their own frontal systems, they postured before the weather maps in the latest gowns and spun out sultry spiels. NBCs Tedi Thurman used to peek from behind a shower curtain to coo: "The Temperature in New York...
...importance of forecasts varies by locale. In Los Angeles, for example, KNXT's Bill Keene claims that "you can call for fair weather every day of the year, and you'll be 92% accurate." In Florida, where weather is a vital concern to citrus growers as well as vacationers, who delight in hearing how their neighbors are freezing back home WTVT in Tampa airs 70 minutes of forecasts daily. On one occasion, WTVT interrupted Walter Cronkite's Evening News to show five water spouts forming in the bay. In Boston, Don Kent styles his program...