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World's Fair Visitors Top 5 Million
More than 5 million people have
passed through the gates of The
1982 World's Fair at Knoxville,
Tenn., thus far, making it the most
successful U.S. fair both in popular
and Financial terms, since the New
York World's Fair of 1939.
By comparison, the attendance
for the entire run of the '74 Fair in
Spokane totaled 5.2 million.
The Fair's national popularity
has been attributed in large part to
word-of-mouth enthusiasm. Exit
surveys of visitors' reactions to
the Fair show that 85 percent would
recommend the Fair to friends and
relatives at home.
in spite of the turn out in
Knoxville. city officials say. the
major problems anticipated by the
public have not materialized. There
have been no traffic jams or
back-ups. police report; and park
ing spaces are plentiful, resulting
in reduced rates.
Visitor services to make booking
accommodations easier and to
reduce waits on exhibit lines have
been stepped up by Fair manage
ment.
Scattered complaints regarding
housing and reservations have been
addressed, and increased staffing,
a new streamlined telephone-reser
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vations system and customer-ser
vice division have eliminated hous
ing problems.
Even with attendance running
35 per cent ahead of projections,
there is good availability of quality
rooms in and around the city,
according to Property Leading and
Hotel/Motel Management, the
Fair's newly retained housing agen
cy.
"We expected our millionth
visitor at the end of May. but we hit
the first million mark in the first
two weeks." S.H. Roberts, Jr.,
president of the Fair, reports. "Our
four millionth visitor arrived late in
June, and earlier this month we
greeted the five millionth."
"The World's Fair is obviously
surpassing our wildest hopes." he
claims. "We anticipated from 20
40.000 visitors daily during May.
but between 50-99.000 people pass
ed through the turnstiles daily.
June projections were 4O-6O.O0O
daily, and we've ended up averag
ing 75.000. The Tour and Travel
Department; expecting 250-300
buses a day. saw that figure reach
600 and up to 800 buses on some
days."
"We've also been proud to see
the number of exhibiting nations
grow to 27 with the recently
announced participation of five
eastern Caribbean nations."
Roberts states. St. Christopher and
Nevis, St. Vincent and the
Grenadines. Montserrat. St. Lucia,
and Antigua and Barbuda will
exhibit in a 4.700 square foot
pavilion opening early in August.
"Because of these fantastic
crowds, we've added water foun
tains. benches, canopies and rest
rooms." Roberts says. "As the Fair
progresses, it is growing and chang
ing to accommodate the turn-out --
steps like a second level of the
French pavilion, expansion of the
Philippine pavilion, and more
space in front of the Korean
Pavilion have been taken in this
regard. An additional 3.5 million
dollars have been allotted since
Opening Day for Fair-site improve
ments."
One of the most powerful draw
ing cards to the Fair has turned out
to be the impressive roster of
entertainers and celebrity-studded
shows.
Crowds have already viewed such
luminaries as Rudolf Nureyev. Bob
Hope. Glen Campbell, the cast of
"Ain't Misbehavin'." Jerry Lee
Lewis and Johnny Cash. On tap for
the coming weeks are Loretta Lynn.
Carlos Montoya. Red Skelton and
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the Grand Kabuki Theatre of
Japan.
On-site, full-scale musical pro
ductions are being staged daily in
the Tennessee State Amphitheatre
and on the three Folklife Festival
stages. The latter -- the largest such
festival ever presented -- features
country, bluegrass. gospel, folk
and biues performers throughout
the day.
Two new theatrical venues - the
Court of Flags and the Garden
Theatre -? have recently been
established to help accommodate
the approximately 35 daily on-site
productions. All on-site entertain
ment is free.
In addition, jugglers, musicians,
dancers, clowns, mimes, and
marching bands entertain queues
throughout the Fair grounds.
Visitors have also been on hand
to greet such visiting dignitaries as
Jordan's Crown Prince Hassan and
Philippine First Lady Imelda
Marcos, Vice Premier of Australia
Douglas Anthony, and of course
American leaders, including Presi
dent and Mrs. Reagan, Governor
Alexander and Senator Baker of
Tennessee.
The number to call for general
information and accommodations
is (615) 971-1000. Call Monday
through Friday from 9 a.m. to 9
p.m.. Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. and Sunday from 12 p.m. to 5
p.m.
The Fair will be open through
October 31. Admission prices are
S9.95 for adults and S8.25 for
children.
"You've Got To Be There" is
The 1982 World's Fair slogan, and
the Fair's success echoes that
theme daily.
In the new Testament and in the
years that followed in the life of the
early church. Christians often found
themselves imprisoned for openly
following and teaching Jesus Christ.
If you'll read these various passages
in the New Testament, you'll note
that Christian prisoners usually
were unique, to say the least. They
weren t like other prisoners. In
fact, although these men were
physically confined to a jail, there
was a lingering apprehension among
their jailors that it was the prisoners
who seemed to be the free men.
That's the way it was with Paul
and Silas at Philippi (Acts 16).
Haying been beaten and hauled
before the magistrates upon their
arrival in Philippi, Paul and Silas
were put in jail. One would have
expected the prisoners to be either
discouraged or humiliated, perhaps
even both. Instead in the midnight
stillness of the prison there was
heard these two men praying and
singing hvmns. What's more, we're
told, "and the prisoners were
listening to them."
Suddenly there is an earthquake
and both the prisoners' fetters and
cell door are sprung open. Waking
with a start, the jailor jumped to
the conclusion that the earthquake
had made it possible for Paul and
Silas to escape. The thought of his
prisoners having escaped devastates
him. Some commentators think
that his despair arose from the fact
that the town magistrates would
execute him tor allowing the pris
oners to escape. Others lay his
extreme reaction to his sense of
humilitation. His pride was crush
ed.
Whatever his reason, the jailor
soon finds himself where we some
times find ourselves: he is over
whelmed with despair, he finds
himself unable to cope with his
situation, and he comes perilously
close to giving up and calling it a
day.
It is in this crucial moment that
he hears Paul calling loudly to him:
"Do not harm yourself, for we are
all here." In amazement he calls
for lights and finds that, in truth,
his prisoners are waiting quietly
within the jail. It is a picture of
contrasts: on the one hand he is
scared and desperate; on the other,
even though he is the jailor, it is
Peter and Silas who seem to be in
control. 'Men," he asks desperate
ly. "what must I do to be saved?"
The jailor needs the help of his
prisoner.
How often you and I find
ourselves either frightened or in
deepest despair and we turn to God
to ask what we must do to be saved.
Whether our danger is physical or
spiritual, we want to be redeemed
of all this. It seems we just can't go
on one more hour, that we have
reached the end of our faith, that
nothing is working out the way it's
supposed to.
But the answer is as simiple and
complex ai it has ever been:
Beheve in the Lord Jesus Christ
?nd you' will be saved."
"WHERE'S CHARLEY?" -? This scene from the comedy. "Where's
Charley?", playing at the Bordeaux dinner Theatre in Fayetteville shows
Dan Norton of Raeford as Sir Francis Chesney. Chris Jones, pretending to
be his own aunt, and William Eanes as Mr. Spettique. The show plays
Wednesdays through Sundays weekly, till Saturday. August 14.
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