Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SWISS SKY RIDE charges a big 75? for a four-minute cable-car trip but sends the traveler soaring 115 ft. above Samoan fire dancers, Burundi drummers, Guatemalan marimba bands and Swiss yodelers...
...MONORAIL ride around the comparatively uncrowded Lake Amusement Area offers a suspended seven-minute fair survey...
PEPSI-COLA'S UNICEF exhibit features an indoor boat ride through a wonderland of Disney dolls, representing children of every country and culture singing and dancing, winking and blinking to a mad little tune called It's a Small World. This particular ride is a must for all children, but attendance records suggest that grownups are willing...
...YORK CITY won't let you walk on it, but you can ride around in a simulated helicopter trip and look at a complete scale model of the five boroughs (the Empire State Building is 15 in. tall). The model will be used by city planners after the fair, meanwhile the modelmakers frantically try to keep up with the real-life builders, tearing out tiny rows of brownstones to slap in new office blocks...
...amidst the casual atmosphere of a subdued county fair, a visitor can "see" his voice, watch a working model steel mill, scramble through a captured German submarine, ride an elevator down to an operating coal mine under the museum, watch thousands of plastic balls fall into a probability curve, follow a feather and a penny as they fall at the same rate in a vacuum. Everywhere, the visitor participates, pushing buttons, pulling levers, yanking chains, turning cranks and talking into phones. He can play ticktacktoe with a computer, watch baby chicks hatch, walk through a throbbing, 16-ft. model...