Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GENERAL MOTORS' Futurama suffers in comparison with its famed 1939 exhibit. The reason perhaps is that the future has come upon us so hard and so fast that the once-incredible magic of what's next now seems all too believable. And Futurama '64 is annoyingly hard to see, with its one-glance-and-you're-past dioramic layout-a sad comedown from Futurama '39's magnificent panoramic display...
...fair's most delightful haven for very small children. Created by some of Denmark's best artists and architects, it has canals to sail boats on, a long, twisty slide that ends up in a sandbox, a Viking ship to climb over, a maze with magic mirrors, holes to stick small heads through, and other diversions...
With those opening words of Casino Royale, tough, handsome James Bond of the British Secret Service was born, soon to be hailed by millions of devotees the world over from Presidents (including John F. Kennedy) and princes to postmen and plumbers. All were effortlessly drawn into a magic country of tension and torture, peopled by pliant, pneumatic blondes, sturdy, self-sacrificing friends, and hordes of mean-eyed villains possessing every evil gift except the knack of shooting straight when firing at James Bond...
...road to Stan marched the "Popular Army of Liberation," a ragtag band of tribesmen carrying spears and an occasional captured rifle. But each rebel also carried a magic wand, which he fully believed would protect him from bullets, and the 1,000 Congolese soldiers and gendarmes who opposed the rebel force at Stanleyville last week shared that belief. By the time the angry, ragged rebels reached the city, all but 50 of its battle-weary defenders had thrown their arms into the Congo River and ducked out, many of them disguised as women...
Central Africa's weird little holy war went into its third terrifying week. On one side was the government of Prime Minister Kenneth Kaunda; on the other the spear-bearing, fanatic followers of Prophetess Alice Lenshina, whose hybrid cult mixes white magic with the teachings of the Church of Scotland...