Word: steel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...earth, lifted up in round bamboo baskets, became a wall, 20 ft. wide at the base, 4 ft. at the top. The sides are porcupined with thousands of closely sown bamboo slivers sharpened to a needle point. Atop the wall the villagers strung two strands of barbed wire on steel stanchions. Then the moat was filled with water lifted from the river by paddle-wheel scoop, and last week water lilies floated above the mantrap of bamboo spikes...
...approaches with stalled cars and subways. And it was very close to the readiness Fair Boss Robert Moses had prophesied all along. Externally, only a handful of buildings were not complete, ranging from the exposed rafters of the Belgian Village to a few forlorn steel girders sticking out of the ground at the site of the Hall of Science...
...through the new fair's 89 turnstiles can see at once that, first and foremost, they are expected to enjoy themselves. This is no sobersided Park of Culture and Rest, but a fantastical medley of outrageous shapes and sizes-soaring planes and flying disks, strutted plastic and fretted steel, domes, pylons, floating cubes, and color everywhere. It is a place to ride a monorail and something called a People Wall, watch a hula, listen to a steel band, eat your head off, and shoot 31 minutes of rapids in a hollow...
...which crouch like two huge beasts across the road, fair buildings are low and airy rather than tall or massive. Where in 1939 France's imposing showcase rose like a grandstand beside the Lagoon of Nations, now stands IBM's egg, poised above a fantastic forest of steel trees. Across the pool, hovers the huge coffin-on-props of the Bell Telephone building, designed by Harrison & Abramovitz and Henry Dreyfus...
...home builder are often confused in making a choice. "There is more competition in the building industry than ever before," says Earl W. Hadland, merchandising manager of Chicago's Masonite Corp. "In outside siding, for example, it's wood v. aluminum v. hardboard v. plywood v. steel...