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ROBERT J. PINKERTON...
...Pitied Them." The President was in New York again two days later, this time flying through mist and fog to help open the World's Fair (see MODERN LIVING). His security men, expecting massive and bitter civil rights demonstrations, had 2,000 New York policemen and 3,000 Pinkerton guards on hand for extra protection. At the Singer Bowl stadium on the fairgrounds, Johnson sloshed through inch-deep puddles of water, made a short speech to a bedraggled crowd of 10,000, then rode to the U.S. pavilion for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. There, the trouble began...
...Pavilion, shoes shined by Johnson's Wax. Lost children can be found on some 300 closed-circuit color TV sets. Baby sitters can be found at the Protestant and Orthodox Center and at the Danish Pavilion's miniature Tivoli Gardens. Wallets can be found (sometimes) through the Pinkerton police. Status can be found in one of the industrial exhibitor's VIP rooms. Rest can be found in the Garden of Meditation. Sleep can be found on a mattress at the Simmons Beautyrest exhibit-$1 for 30 minutes...
...there," pointed one proud Pinkerton. "She's the most magnificent thing I've ever seen." "She" is not Sally Rand; she is Michelangelo's Pietà, a star attraction at the 1964 New York World's Fair. Despite doomsayers, Michelangelo's Pietà survived its ocean trip, emerged intact from its elaborate packing cases, and settled proudly atop a pedestal in the Vatican Pavilion...
...Harvard Senior David Crane has organized a mobile catering-bartending outfit staffed by fellow undergraduates. Last summer the relatively small student body of Williams (1,121) boasted a clambake caterer in Maine, a salmon fisherman in Alaska, a supermarket meatcutter in Maine, a mosquito inspector in New Jersey, a Pinkerton detective in Indiana, a labor union organizer in New York City, a toll collector in Buffalo, a CIA courier in Washington, and a groom for a string of race horses traveling between Maine and Delaware...