Word: osaka
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...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...
...prefectures and found that all but two suffer from kogai-environmental disruption. Cars in Tokyo cause an eye-stinging photochemical smog. Nearly every major city in Japan has its version of "Yokohama asthma," a wheezing caused by air pollution. Noxious industrial wastes wash around the bays of Tokyo, Osaka and Dokai in northern Kyushu. Amid the public outcry against kogai, a 15-year-old student recently scolded Premier Eisaku Sato for taking no action against pollution. "Isn't the government treating the people more or less like livestock?" he asked...
...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...
...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...
...Hidenobu Yoshikawa, a bouncy 70-year-old who founded the firm 49 years ago. A devout Buddhist, he says that he conceives all of his business ideas, including the one to enter the U.S. market, during his daily prayer periods. Takara's $1,000,000 "Beautilion" at the Osaka World's Fair is a futuristic pile of steel tubing and rounded capsules that reflects Yoshikawa's flamboyant sense of promotion. On one floor, 48 barber chairs shaped like lotus leaves lift visitors nine feet in the air to see a psychedelic display projected on the ceiling...