Word: expos
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Goran who? That was the reaction to the appointment from almost everybody, except Swedes, on the tight little island of international opera. As opera directors go, he is a virtual unknown whose work has been seen outside Europe only once. At Montreal's Expo 67, his company staged productions of Tristan, Ballo in Maschera and an Ingmar Bergman-directed Rake's Progress to excellent critical acclaim. In the guessing game that followed Bing's decision to retire, Gentele's name did not figure among the popular favorites: Conductors Leonard Bernstein and Erich Leinsdorf, Impresarios Julius Rudel...
...Pavilion at Osaka's Expo '70 was a bubble building. Harvard has an air-supported field house−a huge structure that covers 45,000 sq. ft. and allows athletes to work out while blizzards rage outside. Columbia has a similar structure. In Manhattan last month, an air-supported building housed the fast-paced musical Orlando Furioso in Bryant Park. Another protects the disassembled blocks of an Egyptian temple outside New York's Metropolitan Museum. In Mamaroneck, N.Y., a bubble covers the high school swimming pool; in Indianapolis, another protects a hockey rink. In Los Angeles, bubbles...
...neophytes in staging world's fairs, the Japanese did themselves proud. When the lights of Expo '70, Asia's first universal exposition, dimmed in Osaka last week after six months, attendance stood at a record 64,218,770. Ever meticulous about details, the Japanese also reported that: The average visitor spent four hours waiting in lines, meaning that almost a quarter of a billion man-hours were whiled away in queues; there were 48,190 lost children but nearly three times as many lost adults -127,457, mostly rural oldsters; 55 weddings were performed on the fairgrounds...
...Japanese will probably be the first to enjoy so easy a ride. One of the more exciting technological exhibits at Expo 70 is a scale model of just such a train; and the Japanese National Railways hopes to put its new "Super-Super Express" in service for the 310-mile ride between Tokyo and Osaka by 1980. Controlled entirely by computers, it will easily eclipse Japan's Tokaido super express, which, at 130 m.p.h., is now the world's fastest scheduled train...
...political campaigns of a state senator and of the state treasurer who granted the loans. Both are Republicans; so is John King. He contributed $250,000 to Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign, and was the President's representative with the rank of ambassador to Japan's Expo '70. King denies that he had anything to do with arranging the loans; but some critics charge that political influence was used to get them...