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New York World’s Fair of 1964–65

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  • Illustration of the opening of London's Great Exhibition of 1851.
    In world’s fair: Modernism and Cold War rivalries

    …of this era was the New York World’s Fair of 1964–65, which adopted “Peace through understanding” as its theme. While one might have expected there to be a strong Cold War atmosphere at that fair, this was not the case. The BIE had refused to sanction the fair because of…

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