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PAGE 8 CAROLINA JOURNAL APRIL 26, 1967 Panoramic View Of ^Expo’Construction Theme Of Educational Fair ‘Man And His WorhT There will be a new “In” place to go next year: Montreal. College students from all parts of the United States are expected to cross the nation’s northern border, attracted by Expo 67, the Canadian Universal and Interna tional Exposition of 1967. This event will be the first exhibition of the first category ever held in North America. No idle boast or promotional gimmick, the rating is quite official; it’s handed down by the Bureau of International Exhibitions, in Paris, an internal agency set up in 1928 to establishrulesforworld’sfairs. Expo 67 will have two basic goals in mind when its gates open for a six-month run next April 28. First, it wants to be education al — that’s the purpose of the national pavilions being put up by nearly 70 participating nations -- and second, it wants to be entertaining. In making Expo 67 an educa tional fair, the officials decided to give it an over-all theme — “Man and His World”. The theme was inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exu- pery’s book “Terre des Ilommes,” in which he wrote: “To be a man is to feel that through one’s own contribution one helps to build the world.” It is hoped. Expo 67 officials say, that the fair “will unfold the story of man’s hopes and aspirations, his ideas and his endeavors.” One official, apprehensive lest Expo 67 be taken as a fair that might be educational but not enter taining, added a cautionary note not long ago. “Of course we want people to come and to be in formed,” she said. “But to my' mind, fairs are fun, fun, fun. Most of all. I’d like to see people come to Expo 67 next year to have fun.” The exposition has provided for that. In La Ronde, the 135-acre amusement area, you would have to work at it not to enjoy your self. The major elements of this area are an aquarium; a Pioneer Land, which includes a ride that shoots cabins down into the water; a Children’s World; a Youth Pavi lion; and the Gyrotron, a thrill ride that is made up of a galaxy, a colcano, and a a fire-belching monster that swallows the part- cipants; a Dolphin Lake; and a Sky Ride. The idea of La Ronde is to create the best of all possible amuse ments parks, combining the finest elements of Copenhagen’s Tivoli Gardens with the best of Disney land. In the area, 18 of the 39 restaurants to be built by Expo 67 will be found; and there will also be more than 20 snack bars and 15 food shops. And it is in La Ronde where college-age students can Frug, Twist, Monkey, Moscow Mule, Snake, Shamble, Watusi, and what ever with students from the world over. Many of the restaurants will convert, when night falls and the younger children are pack3d off to bed, to discotheques, with top musical combosprovidingthebeat. And for those who might feel a bit foot-weary from a day strol ling through the magnificently ar- chitectured buildings and grounds that make up Expo 67, there are night clubs, too, where you can sit and sip a cool one and take your entertainment passively, ra ther than actively. Or you might stroll down to the Garden of Stars, which will be the most magnificent of the Ex po 67 night clubs, with entertain ment from all parts of the world. If you want to get away from the hustle and bustle for awhile, then La Ronde’s the place for that, too. You might take the Sky Ride, to get a magnificent over head view of the fair, or stroll along the marina, where 300 or more pleasure yachts will be docked. Or walk down to the tip of He Sainte-Helene, where there’s a little park that looks east along the majestic St. Lawrence River and Seaway. Le Village, a sort of old-world creation, will be one of the most interesting areas of La Ronde, or, for that matter, of Expo 67 itself. You might visit Chez Rose Latu- lipe, a dance hall that will speci alize in folk dances. While you watch, you might quaff a spruce beer, or a caribou (a local drink made of sweet red wine and white whiskey). Then there are les boites a chanson, bistros where you can hear the new-wave singers who compose their own songs of love, sorrow, death, virtue, happiness, etc. Or, there’s La &uterie, confisting of a cocktail lounge, a gourmet restaurant, and a jet-set discotheque. If you prefer a dif ferent form of culture, you might visit Lucifer, which has no food but a complete bar service, and, in addition, strippers performing to top-flight jazz. How far will they strip down? One Expo 67 official contemplated the question for a moment and commented, “They will strip down to, ah -- to good jazz.” There will be additional enter tainment, too, at the various na tional pavilions — from the $9.3 million U.S. Pavilion a geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller, to the $15 million Soviet Pavilion, a testimonial to Soviet space achievements. And this to the splendid pavilions, is free. Yes, free. At Place des Nations, at the opposite end of He Ste. Helene from La Ronde, there will be a series of national days, for the participating nations to have sp ecial ceremonies of their own. The nations will provide entertain ment — again, free — for those ceremonies. At the grounds, but not inside, and in downtown Montreal, there’ll be entertainment of another type --the international festival of per forming arts. The idea of not hav ing this part of Expo 67 inside the fair grounds is simple. Since this will all be paid entertainment. Expo 67 doesn’t want the audi ences to have to pay admission to the air grounds, on top of ad mission to the entertainment. The world festival of performing arts will offer the greatest musi cal and dramatic entertainment in the world. The Bolshoi Opera, for instance, will come to Expo 67, marking that company’s first ap pearance in North American and only its second outside the So viet Union. (The dates are being negotiated.) Other major opera companies will be the Royal Opera from Stockholm, May 30 to June 4; the Hamburg Slate Opera, June 13-18; the Vienna State Opera, September 4-22; the English Opera Group, September 11-23; and La Scala of Milan, October 7-15. There will also be top drama, from Britain’s National Theater Company (led by Sir Lawrence Olivier) to several Broadway shows. To house the international fes tival of arts. Expo 67 has rented Montreal’s Place des Arts, a thea ter complex similar to New York City’s Lincoln Center. Next year this will consist of three theater buildings. In addition to such financial breaks for the budget - conscious as having entertainment outside the grounds. Expo 67 has provided in other ways for college students. Its Youth Pavilion, for instance, will offer free cultural, social, and dancing facilities for youths -- ages 15 to 30. And then there are the youth rates. An admission ticket — they are known as pass ports, and designed in that style — for seven consecutive days in $12 for adults, $10 for those aged 13 to 21, and $6 for those 12 or younger. The season passport will be $35 for adults, $30 for those 13 to 21, and $17.50 for children. For a daily admission, a youth would pay $2.50, the same as an adult. Besides such things as its youth program and its festivai of arts. Expo 67 has other features to brag about, some of them on a more practical level. One is the con struction schedule, which is being dictated according to what is known as the critical - path theory. Un der this system, information fed inot a computer tells Expo 67’s planners where they are lagging behind, and the effect that one job will have on another. So, unlike New York’s World’s Fair, Expo67 will for all practical purposes be completed by opening day. “If there are details that aren’t' ready,” says Expo 67’s director of installations. Col. Edward Ch urchill, “they won’t stick you in the eye. There might be some fellows working in corners with paint brushes. You won’t even see them.” You won’t see them next year because Canada has been busy for the lastfive years getting readj' for her world’s fair. The countrj received sanction from the Bureau of International Exhibitions in. 1962, and the governments of Can ada, Quebec Province, and Mon treal have been busy ever since, (Canada’s reason tor applying: 1967 is the 100th anniversary of her confederation.) Expo 67 even had to build its own fair site. Montreal, Canada’s largest city, with a population of more than two million, and the second - largest French - speaking city in the world (after Paris), had no available land area large enough for a fair site, so one was made. A pier in the St. Lawrence River was extended, a small is land nearby was enlarged, and another island was built from scratch on a rock outcropping. It all adds up to a site of 1,000 acres. Now with construction nearing completion, Montreal is gearing for a record influx of tourists. More than 10 million people are expected to visit Expo 67, each of them entering three times. Of this number, nearly six in 10 are ex pected to be Americans. And of those six in 10, a significant num ber will be college-age visitors.
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