Word: pavilion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months of frenetic construction, the 470-acre showcase was still a littered building site. "We'll never make it," muttered a French official-and in fact the French (along with the Italians, Brazilians, the Arabs, Moroccans, Tunisians and Spaniards) were not ready on opening day. In the U.S. pavilion one entire exhibit was torn out for being unready. In most pavilions there were similar last-minute crises. But after workmen had performed a herculean overnight cleanup job, Belgium's tall, shy King Baudouin, 27, formally opened the first world's fair anywhere since New York...
Within minutes of the opening, most of the 160,000 first-day visitors tried to descend on the U.S. and Russian pavilions. (In the crush, a Belgian guard at the U.S. pavilion was pushed through a plate-glass window, hospitalized.) Both pavilions got mixed notices. There was almost universal agreement that in architectural beauty Edward Stone's circular U.S. pavilion of steel and gold aluminum (TIME, March 31) surpassed Russia's rectangle of frosted glass and steel, though the Soviet building was an improvement on Russia's usual grim monoliths. Those who think that fairs should...
...Protestants got off to a slow start about three years behind the Holy See. When Belgium's few Protestants (approximately 90,000) asked the World Council of Churches about a pavilion, they were told they could use the World Council's name, but not its money. Gradually, support for the idea gained ground. The first contribution from overseas was $560 from New Zealand Protestants; among others, the Belgians set themselves a quota of $20,000; a Netherlands committee is halfway to its goal of $26,000; and in the U.S. the United Church Women are raising...
Carillon & Congresses. On a plot of only 13,500 sq. ft., the Protestant pavilion consists of a prefab circular church that will hold 200 people and a prefab one-story display building. Wide arcs of the church wall are glass, so that the passing crowd will be able to look in upon the worshipers at the two daily services (four on Sundays). "We wanted the public to see what Protestant worship is like," says the Rev. Pieter Fagel of The Netherlands, Evangelical Reformed chairman of the pavilion committee...
...didn't want to make our pavilion big," Fagel explains. "There's such a crying need for money for other purposes. People don't come to the fair to go to church. We didn't plan congresses, the way the Catholics did." (The Catholics will hold some 60 congresses, will bring the faithful to Brussels from all over Europe in 1,000 buses and numerous special trains.) One Protestant worry is the electronic carillon in the Civitas Dei bell tower 570 yards away. "I hope they don't play it too much," gloomed Fagel last...