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Exhibitions at the fair ranged from the Mail Communications Center's, which gave away souvenir bottle openers and pamphlets with information about their services, to an enormous multicolored box whose flashing lights called attention to the Harvard University Metropolitan Area Network, a newly developed fiber optics communications system that New England Telephone is testing at several Harvard offices...
...COMING) to egregious (POPE MCKENZIE, THE ORIGINAL VATICAN ANIMAL, an unauthorized play on the Budweiser ad). In Detroit, one of the hottest items is a $2 button of John Paul sporting a Detroit Tigers cap with the caption BLESS YOU BOYS. The prize for the most spectacularly tasteless souvenir goes to a Detroit firm that is marketing a $55, 30-in.-high aluminum Pope-shaped lawn sprinkler, called Let Us Spray. Not everyone is afflicted with the commercial bug. Some ticket brokers thought scalping for papal rallies would be a bit much. "Frankly, I think it's sacrilegious," said Rick...
...amount of tickets, soft pretzels and souvenir pucks can cover lofty salaries, so management has concocted some unusual contracts to pay off superstars...
...JAZZ." I suspect this is designed to fool gullible tourists into thinking they're in Preservation Hall, the legendary traditional jazz room across the street. By the time they realize the mistake they're too drunk to leave, having already bought three six dollar Hurricanes with the accompanying souvenir glass. Perhaps this happened to the sailors, who sat at a table near the stage surrounded on three sides by a senior citizens tour group from Florida. They kept looking at each other, then at their drinks, then back at each other, while a pedestrian Dixieland group on the bandstand honked...
...fortunate tourists who packed the galleries the day before had watched the Senate vote with suppressed tension. I sat and watched as the tourists--a Boy Scout troop, some sort of club of fraternal order, a lot of well-bred white high school students--fidgeted and daydreamed about the souvenir shops...