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West Virginia puts on a demonstration of glass blowing; Montana has a trainload of Western collector's items, including an invitation to a hanging, Calamity Jane's thundermug, and Buffalo Bill's silver-handled toothbrush. Alaska has brought in Chilkat Indians to custom-carve totem poles (at $100 a running foot). General Cigar offers a magic show. Indonesia demonstrates shadow puppets, Oregon runs a lumberjack carnival, Polynesia sells chunks of fresh sugar cane. Socony Mobil tests your reflexes in a simulated driving-hazard test. Sinclair Oil has a forest of dinosaurs, and the Scott pavilion boasts...
Meanwhile West Virginia puts on a demonstration of glass blowing: Montana has a trainload of Western collector's items, including an invitation to a hanging, Calamity Jane's thundermug and Buffalo Bill's silver-handled toothbrush. Alaska has brought in Chilkat Indians to custom-carve totem poles (at $100 a running foot). General Cigar offers a magic show, Indonesia demonstrates shadow puppets, Oregon runs a lumberjack carnival, Polynesia sells chunks of fresh sugar cane, Sinclair Oil has a forest of dinosaurs, and the Scott pavilion boasts the best rest rooms of all, with a diaper-changing room...
...shouting noises of guttural rage, bobbing, feinting, taking clever steps backward and occasionally falling by accident into the water. You can try on a Panamanian straw hat, test a Nicaraguan wooden spear, and talk to a stranger in California while you stare into his eyes on television-telephone. Alaskan Chilkat Indians will tell you how to make totem poles: start by floating the log in a lake until it steadies, then split off the upper third, since that is where the most knots...
More likely for future development is the northern half of the Alcan, with its link to Haines. From tidewater on the Inside Passage at Haines (site of Chilkoot Barracks, longtime Army post) the cutoff climbs through Chilkat Pass, lower and easier than famed Chilkoot Pass of gold-rush days. Scenically the route is as spectacular as the well-advertised Banff-Jasper Highway in the Canadian Rockies...