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Exhibits are as disparate as the architecture. Emphasizing its lunar conquest, the U.S. will display genuine moon rocks, space suits and a model of the Apollo 11 lunar module. Russia, observing the centennial of Lenin's birth, will stress Soviet culture, history and science. Pursuing techniques pioneered in Montreal three years ago, the fair features several dazzling, multiscreen light shows, and psychedelic sound shows as well. The Japan steel-and-iron-industries building has 1,300 loudspeakers embedded in the ceiling and walls to stun visitors with a "Song of Steel...
...people, from waiters and airline stewardesses to journalists and even corporation presidents. Alinsky seems genuinely to enjoy life, as if he had discharged all residue of guilt and resentment in purposeful action. The notorious agitator begins to seem more like a secret philosopher whose model is Socrates rather than Lenin...
Born in Russia, Reilly had been an intelligence officer for the Czarist government working with Rasputin. He was involved in an early plot in 1918 to assassinate Lenin and became involved with anti-Bolshevik groups in Europe...
...Russians were heavy drinkers long before the Revolution, and Communism has not changed that. Lenin & Co. learned as much when, in an effort to conserve potatoes and grain, they continued a World War I liquor prohibition into the mid-1920s; during one six-month period, the Soviet militia uncovered no fewer than 75,296 illegal stills. Since then, sales of vodka, profits to the state and the number of chronic alcoholics have all grown right along with the population. The Kremlin does not publish official statistics, but one count of Soviet souses in 1965 put the number of heavy drinkers...
Americans who have been fighting against Ho Chi Minh and his forces for nearly a decade may be intrigued to learn that the preservation of a legend is in progress in Hanoi. Soviet specialists are helping the North Vietnamese to embalm Ho's body so that, like Lenin's, it will become a glass-encased shrine for future generations-doubtless including, on some distant, peaceful day, American tourists...