Word: pavilion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neither East nor West can be credited with a victory at the Exposition. The tactics of the two major powers in their pavilion propaganda are vastly different. Russia has presented a formidable and rather frightening demonstration of her industrial and military prowess. The United States has tried the "soft-sell"; technical exhibits are well-hidden and the emphasis is on "the American way of life." As to which is more effective, that is purely a matter of personal taste...
...voting machine in the U.S. pavilion includes the question, "To which of these U.S. universities would you prefer to send your son?" Harvard led by three to one at the beginning of the month, despite the fact, as a hostess from Oklahoma noted, that "all summer the Yale boys have been coming along trying to change the figures on the board...
Beneath the bright white lights of Bournemouth's Pavilion-more commonly switched on for comedians and jugglers entertaining the seaside resort trade-Britain's trade-union movement showed its age last week. World War II and service in Britain's postwar Labor government have given the brash, rash revolutionaries of yesteryear a more mature sense of responsibility, a new aura of middle-class respectability. Less anxious to "nationalize everything," more alert to the Communist menace in their ranks, the leaders of the Trades Union Congress (8,377,325 members in 185 affiliated unions) have moved steadily...
...bricks, Candela went on to study the reinforced-concrete forms developed by Spain's Eduardo Torroja and Switzerland's Robert Maillart. In 1950 Candela made his-mark by designing (with Architect Jorge González Reyna) a concrete shell for Mexico's University City Cosmic Ray Pavilion so precisely engineered that its minimum thickness where it had to carry little weight was cut to a mere five-eighths of an inch...
...almost everything connected with the new opera seemed to have gone wrong. Less than a month before, Composer-Librettist-Director Gian Carlo Menotti was still frantically writing Act III when he put Act I into rehearsal. In the last hours he found that the orchestra pit in the U.S. Pavilion's theater looked all wrong, ordered it repainted dark brown. Belgium's Queen Elisabeth arrived for the premiere, had to be placed in a niche originally designed for spotlights, since the American theater had nothing like a royal box. About one-third of the invited VIP audience...