Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Canada's Expo 67 may be the foremost fair of the year, but it is not the northernmost. Some 100 miles below the Arctic Circle, along a swift-flowing river where the cannonade of breaking ice lately echoed, Alaska last week opened its own centennial exposition and applied to it what sounded like a highway designation: "A-67." As Republican Governor Walter Hickel inaugurated the frosty fiesta on a 42-acre site in Fairbanks (pop. 19,000), the nation's 49th and biggest state was already well into a yearlong shivaree commemorating the 1867 purchase from Russia...
...Strong." The gaudy history of Alaska's territorial period is reconstructed in miniature at the Fair banks fair. Visitors (300,000 anticipated) can either tour a gold-painted geodesic dome meant to symbolize a nugget, or else pan gold themselves, sourdough-fashion, in chutes from the Chena River; sip cocktails in the "Wheelhouse," a VIP lounge on the superstructure of the old Alaskan stern-wheeler Nenana; view an aboriginal village with Eskimo kayak rides and a Tlingit totem-pole carver at work; or ogle the cancan dancers from an authentic gold-rush...
...diminishing heartland along the Red River once housed 60% of North Viet Nam's economic base. Eleven of the nation's power plants, which produce 80% of the country's electricity, have been struck-some many times. The only large power plant left is Lao Cai, which is off limits because it stands on the border with Red China. U.S. jets recently destroyed the Haiphong plant that poured 95% of the country's cement. The showpiece Thai Nguyen steel plant has been bombed 13 times. To defend the heartland as best he can, Ho has emplaced...
...chance nor, of late, altogether by choice. So regularly and effectively have U.S. pilots pounded Ho's fledgling industries in the nation's heartland (see map) that very few major targets remain intact. U.S. policy has so far strictly proscribed the bombing of Haiphong harbor, the Red River dikes, and the government's civilian and military headquarters in Hanoi. Of the permissible targets, only four major ones are still untouched: the three airfields of Phuc Yen, Gia Lam and Cat Bi, and the large Red River Bridge feeding into downtown Hanoi...
...Happening bears all the errmarks of the amateur effort. Yet the man responsible is Sam Spiegel, producer of such impressive hits as Lawrence of Arabia and Bridge on the River Kwai -both overseas productions. The Happening is a homemade bomb. Next time, Spiegel should reapply for foreign aid. Et cetera...