Expo 70 still has a few bugs
OSAKA, Japan (UPI) — There are a lot of things right about Asia's first world fair, Expo 70, but there are a lot of things wrong with it, too.
There are, for example, the moving sidewalks which do not move. The last time they did 42 persons were injured when they toppled and piled up at the end of one of them.
That was a week ago and the moving sidewalks were halted for several days while Expo officials tried to figure out what went wrong. Meanwhile, congestion on the walkways worsened.
The monorail which encircles the 815-acre grounds is hopelessly inadequate and most people who come to the fair are not able to get near it, much less on it.
Lines at the pavilions are dishearteningly long. People have waited for as much as four hours to get into the American Pavilion, which displays a moon rock.
Several dozen people have been laid low by food poisoning. Fair officials have closed the restaurant responsible but the danger persists in a nation where people eat raw fish even in the hot summer months.
The main problem of Expo 70 is simply too many people.
The "Lost Children Center" has been swamped, not so much with straying youngsters as lost adults who get separated from their tour groups in the surging crowds.
In the fair's first two weeks the center handled about 6,000 cases, but 60 per cent of those helped were adults, many of whom
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showed up at the center looking a little sheepish. The center has asked the Expo Association for more help.
What saves the fair from being a disaster is that about 90 per cent of the people who see it are Japanese, a people renowned for their patience and tractability. There is remarkably little grumbling about the line-standing and the usually inadvertent toe-treading, shin-kicking and elbowing.
One Japanese family proudly told a Tokyo newspaper they had visited 27 pavilions, including the American exhibition, in a single bone-weary day. That probably wasn't a record but it was an excellent day's work.
An American woman complained that she had to line up behind 40 other women to use a restroom.
Such a synthesis of work and play may babble a Westerner, but to a Japanese, hard work like queueing up, pushing, shoving and hiking all day on concrete, is all in a day's play.
Church history livened with modern headlines
By LOUIS CASSELS
UPI Religion Writer
Assign a newspaper editor to teach a Sunday School class in church history, and what do you get?
If the editor is David Stolberg, you get a catchy collection of tabloid headlines which make great events of Christian history sound remarkably contemporary
Stolber is managing editor of the Washington Daily News.
His class consisted of 25 high school students, and they approached the subject of church history with an unwavering conviction that it would be deadly dull.
He enlisted the help of his newspaper colleagues, including regular headline writers and print shop workers, who produced one hand-set headline each week.
The first headline dealt with the "birthday of the church"—the day of Pentecost on which the Apostles of Christ were filled with the holy spirit. It read: "12 Apostles Hit by Fire, Talk in Foreign Tongues."
A classroom discussion of the persecution of Christians in Nero's Rome was enlivened by a headline with a strikingly contemporary sound: "Christians Defy Govt., Refuse Loyalty Pledge."
A certain sauciness is expected of a good tabloid headline, and Stolberg's treatment of Martin Luther's break with the Catholic Church meets the requirement: "Monk Luther Defies Rome's Heaven Sales."
The idea isn't copyrighted,
Stolberg says, and any Sunday
school teacher who wants to
borrow it has his blessing.
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