| Summary: | Headline from page 1 reads: Ike Pushes $12.5 Million Science Center; State Sets November 1 'Coliseum' Start. Includes articles about the history and regional impact of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition held in Seattle in 1909; images and descriptions of proposed architectural structures and exhibits to be featured in the upcoming World's Fair; a timeline of significant events, from the February 1955 creation of the World Fair Commission to the July 1959 Soviet commitment to participate in the fair; early models of the Washington State Coliseum; illustrations of the Monorail and Century 21 fairgrounds; and photographs of prominent World's Fair officials, architects, and supporters, including Senators Warrren G. Magnuson and Henry M. Jackson, newly appointed World's Fair President Joseph E. Gandy, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr. Neils Bohr, and Vice President Richard M. Nixon.
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