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Show The New York World's Fair f Area (Continued front page 7) 5 - VI n4 tjr 'fzmft Area .... bring your own genie to remove the curse. Most nations have their own restaurants with native food. The Argentines will barbecue whole steers in their eating place, now Jackie Gleason's home away from home. In the African exhibit, restaurant while a you can dine in a tree-houlive lion roams nearby. You've never seen peopje a Iff . sc' J ;"; Plfe,. V Area L... or 50 illumi- Enough lights for 340,000 autos nated Yankee Stadiums, and a beam of light you can see in Atlantic City on a clear night. I commute from California, every night just to take a bow in it! Some amusement before dragging home? circus with headliners from There's a one-rin- g basketball-playin- g Europe and the U.S.; Florida's ; and porpoises (they dribble all over the place Dick Buttons' ice show with Olympic champ Don McPherson and a chimp who makes a monkey out of most human skaters. And so, to quote a" old English diarist, to bed. l1 IV se 'Ck; 4 ) 4 t 4 rea II : Second Day Our experts suggest for the second day that we head in an opposite direction, through the axis of the Fair, starting out at, say, the Bell System exhibit. There you sit in a "talking chair," an Ilka Chaise, no doubt, which narrates a pictorial history of communication as it moves from scene to scene. The modern stuff includes teleseeing, via television, the person you're phoning, and trying out new telephones you don't dial a number; you hunt and peck it out on a keyboard. They say you get a wrong number twice as fast! exhibit is Clairol's. Here A a lady can peer into a special looking glass and see how she'll look as a blonde, brunette, or redhead. Why they limited it to just the three, I don't know. And a fearless electronic computer has been set up to tell her what she's doing wrong, cosmetically speaking. Those screams you hear are milady telling the machine: "Ah, what do you know!" Walt Disney has designed the General Elec-'tri- c exhibit with a cast of thousands of walking, Rustalking robots. ("No, Gertrude, they're not sians.") Along the way, Johnson's Wax is ready to give 300 free shoeshines an hour, one every 12 seconds.Then there's Coca-Col- a serenading electronic 610 carillon with the world's largest bells the place for you if you're looking for a 55 ,r-- MA . f - Y If ii. h . i " for-women-o- Iff ' I f 'i 1 - A TV your life ! After that, you have some regional and state exhibits: New England with country stores and village greens (unfortunately, not for putting) ; New Jersey, historical pageants; Wisconsin, world's biggest cheese, 34,561 pounds of cheddar (and under it a basement with the world's fattest mice) ; and the tallest structure at the Fairgrounds, the New York State Pavilion, where a transparent "bubble" elevator pops yojA upward 232 feet. You can pick up your stomach so polite to the waiters in X" I , . - T Y. Sa i 'f-ft-t ft baa Si:" on the way down. draft deferment! 80-fo- ot Area beautiful get away from it all, there's a of TOsunken, -- The Transportation Area has those big exhibits you may have missed the first day. U.S. Ferris wheel shaped like Rubber has an a rubber tire (in Hollywood the big wheels are in the shape of hams); Avis has antique cars you drive through an obstacle course which will seem like a straightaway to freeway drivers; and Socony Mobil has linked motion-pictur- e recorders situations and reaction-tim- e to reveal how good a driver you really are. My wife took the test and won a scholarship totop driving school! Don't go away. There's your evening entertainment. Maybe an outdoor luau at the Hawaiian Pavilion, then across the street to see, "To Broadway with Love," put on by the state of rt hat and the Texas, home of the breakfast. Or you might like to see "Wonderworld," a spectacular staged by LeonidorT of Radio City Music Hall fame. It has a cast of 250 who either swim underwater or fly around on Buck Rogers space belts. They had to use actors. It was too dangerous for robots! (Continued on page 10) replica garden facing the the famed Salt Lake City Temple of theChurch Saints and, nearby, of Jesus Christ of Latter-Da- y a massive mural depicting Mormon history. 40 Next is the Du Pont exhibit, which puts on musical shows a day with live actors who sing, motion-pictur- e talk, and dance with figures on screens. One actress' job is to hose down an auto that! Better projected on a screen. How about a car wash! things for better living through As you approach U.S. Steel's Unisphere, symthe bol and hub of the Fair, you'll find around it exhibits of 21 countries. Japan, for example, has Geisha girls and flower arrangers. The flower men arrangers, by the way, are the lonesomest at the Fair. Spain has the art of Goya, El Greco, is Velasquez, and Miro. The only thing missing Jordan has the Cugat's masterpiece, Abbe Lane. Dead Sea Scrolls, and the United Arab Republic to treasures from King Tut's tomb. It's advisable 12-sto- I ry Where to See What at the Fair Area Pepsi-Col- a Co. Greek-Catholi- General International Business Machines Formica Corp. Pavilion of American Interiors I Better Living displays Russian Orthodox Church of America Boy Scouts of America . . . c Electric Co. Continental Insurance Companies Clairoi, Inc. Parker Pen Co. Scott Paper Co. Bell System Travelers Insurance Companies Hall of Education Equitable Life Assurance Society Simmons Co. Oregon Festival of Gas Gas, Inc. Church of Jesus Christ of Saints House of Good Taste Area Eastman Kodak Co. Austria Japan Sermons from Science Institute) Guinea United Arab Republic Jordan Sudan Latter-Da- y II Electric Power and light Exhibit S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. General Cigar Co., Inc. Pan American Highway Garden Belgium Christian Science Pavilion Garden of Meditation Area Morocco III Co. E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co. Seven-UCo. Coca-Col- a Greece Philippines Lebanon Africa Pakistan p Malaya Sierra Leone American-Isra- (Moody Switzerland Hall of Free Enterprise Sweden France Vatican el Corp. Dynamic Maturity Protestant and Orthodox Center Radio Corp. of America Denmark Venezuela Hong Kong Spain Central America Indonesia Polynesia Republic of China Caribbean Mexico Thailand Argentina Ireland Korea India Pavilion of 2,000 Tribes West Berlin Masonic Brotherhood Center Billy Graham Evangelistic Assn. American Express Co. Singer Arena Greyhound Corp. Area IV r Illinois Area West Virginia Montana Texas' Pavilion Music Hall - - - Jaycopter Ride Dancing Waters Show Les Poupees de Paris Kiddyland Monorail (American Machine . Area V Ford Motor Co. Missouri Chrysler Corp. General Motors Corp. Hall of Science New Jersey Avis Wjsconsin New York City Sinclair Oil Corp. United States Rubber Co. New England Transportation Hollywood Pavilion Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc. New York Port Authority Oklahoma United States (Federal Pavilion) New Mexico and Hawaii Maryland Louisiana Minnesota New York State Westinghouse Electric Corp. Alaska VI Rent-a-C- Foundry Co.) Walter's International Wax ar and Travel Auto Thrill Show Museum Wonderworld Extravaganza American Indian Pavilion Continental Circus Florida Sounfy Santa Mario & 10-gall- on Family Weekly, March 22, 1964 8 Family Weekly, March 22, 1 96 k two-qua- 9 |