The Des Moines Register from Des Moines, Iowa • 115

SEE COVER Cmr; DH1B'. 3 mm lu 7 Men in a Bubble creative America: The moon, fine art, movies and Elvis Presley's guitar Canada's World's Fair opens this week a preview of the remarkable U. S. exhibit BY FRANCES SPATZ LEIGHTON. you reach the third platform, with paintings by 25 American artists hung on nylon sailcloth backdrops.

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Pavilion at Expo 67 lem of lighting them by devising computerized blinds that open and close as the sun moves across the dome. All seven associates were involved in some manner in working on the pavilion, but Alden Christie has worked especially closely with Ivan on the exhibits and Terry Rankine was in charge of the architectural and landscape work. The other four are Thomas Geismar, Louis Bakanowsky, Paul Dietrich and Peter Chermayeff. Although some visitors to the pavilion may never have heard of the Cambridge Seven, many will know of their work: Geismar and Ivan Chermayeff are well-known for their work on the "John F. Kennedy Memorial Library Exhibit" which traveled in the U.S.

and abroad, and for their "Graphic Arts, USA" (showing how America packages everything from soup to paperbacks) which the USIA sent on tour to Russia. Exposition Universale et Internationale The floor, or concourse, of the pavilion is filled with exhibits of Americana: Indian Theater tor 900 people every hour de 1967), opening next Friday. The pavilion, in fact, is the biggest bubble in the world, rising as high as a 20-story building. Inside the plastic bubble, visitors rnnoc: jewelry', Raggedy Ann dolls, Elvis Presley's guitar, cowboy outfittings, early 1 800 housewares, a collection of the hats men wear today 250 hats in all. A theater, seating 900 people an hour, will show an 18-minute, three-screen film of the games children around the world play.

The bubble considered by environmental scientists as a prototype for lunar cities of the future was designed by architect R. Buckminster Fuller, who calls it the Geodesic Sky-break Bubble because of its geometric formula- The U.S. Information Agency assigned the illustrating trolled world. One of the longest escalators on earth, 145 feet, will carry you past four platforms where you can get off to examine the exhibits. "Destination: Moon" needs two platforms to show the surface of the moon and, above it, suspended in space by 63-foot-wide parachutes, the space ship Apollo and some actual capsules recovered from space.

Continue on, meanwhile gazing over the grounds in all directions, and All seven helped design the New England Aquarium being built in Boston, which won From on aquarium to 0 trash oan WHY NOT FIND OUT FOR YOUHSEtF? I LUTHERAN LAYMEN'S LEAJIIE. DEPT. I 2115 Hiiitn Avmi, St. Luis, Miutiri 13139 Pltist send without cost or obligition-i copy of thi booklet. YOUR TAMIL Y-THE GREA TEST SOCIETY HAMC the Progressive Architecture award citation for the best recreation building of 1 965.

And Mrs. Lyndon Johnson is interested in their study for the U.S. Commission on Fine Arts, dealing with the beautifica-tion of Washington streets and the redesigning of everything from street lights to trash cans. Chermayeff has this to say of the Expo 67 exhibits: "I wanted, to give the feeling that this is a now country of action and experiment. We have tried to symbolize the dynamic attitude that we feel is unique with America." (the end) of the theme Creative America through technological and esthetic inventiveness" to Cambridge Seven Associates.

This very young group of exhibit architects and designers have turned Buckminstcr's bubble into an exciting visual experience. Ivan Chermayeff, at 34 (shown on cover), is practically the "old man" of the group. In addition to devis- -ZIP CODE- STATU to Fuller, USIA'sJack Masey, Rankine ing exhibits, he solved the prob- fi a We're the people who broadcast The Lutheran Hour each Sunday Widar pubkcilion ol tht abovt message madt possible (hrough tha Internal benawtonce pogrom oi Aid Association lot luthei-ins. AppleiM, Wisconsin 12.