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- PARKER PEN
- The launching of a million international friendships is the primary aim of this pavilion, which offers visitors the names of pen friends from other nations. There are 90 writing desks, and hostesses supply pens, postcards and stationery for this (or any other) correspondence. An exhibit in the pavilion traces the 75-year history of Parker handwriting implements; another displays photographs of various historic occasions when Parker pens were used.
- * Admission: free.
- Highlights
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- INTERNATIONAL PEN FRIENDS. Furthering the Fair's theme of Peace through Understanding, and in cooperation with People-to-People Inc., headed by former President Eisenhower, the company supplies any interested visitor with a form on which he may fill in his name, address, age and his interests. A computer matches this information with the data on participants abroad, and within seconds supplies the name and address of a foreign pen friend on a special overseas mailer. Parker expects to supply more than a million names during the Fair's two years.
- HISTORIC SIGNATURES. Pictures show the signing of historic documents, among them the German and Japanese treaties of surrender ending World War II.
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- PARKER PEN
Visitors to the pavilion are put in touch with "pen friends" of similar age and interests in many parts of the world.
The aim is to launch a million friendships. In keeping with the Fair's theme of "Peace through Understanding," and in cooperation with People-to-People, Inc., any interested visitor may fill in a form with his name, address, age and interests. A computer then matches these with similar details provided by participants abroad and in seconds supplies the name and address of someone in another country with whom the fairgoer may correspond. There are 90 writing desks with multilingual hostesses on hand to give assistance.
¶ Admission: free.
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