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Word: gyrotron (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1967-1967
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...sophisticated silhouette pictograms intended to point the path to the lavatories were so escteric that many people could not tell what they were, managed to find washrooms only after many desperate queries. The Gyrotron, the highly ballyhooed simulated trip from space orbit to volcano core, broke down and may not be in operation again for six weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Expositions: Snafus of Success | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...acre amusement area, there is an aquarium with penguins, a Pioneer Land where gun fights take place every hour, a "safari" through a man-made jungle (where kids can ride on an elephant, a zebra, an ostrich or a llama). For thrill seekers, there is the Gyrotron, a $3,000,000 contraption that allows tourists to strap themselves into miniature rail cars and then be hurtled through a maze of environments that begins with a terrifyingly realistic "orbit" among the stars, careens on through the hellish jaws of a live volcano crater. On opening day, the mechanism broke down, stranding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Expositions: Man & His World | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

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