the moon and a diarama of it and the astranauts, their footprints and all which was quite impressive. A hunk of moon rock got a lot of play though it looked like any other rock. They had many pictures of American scenes, a lot on baseball greats since this is a big game in Japan, folk crafts and art and various historical items and scenes. It was interesting and instructive but gets forth the message "we have and are a lot more but this is enough for now" and you didn't emerge exhausted from it. The soft sell was also involved architecturally too as the Russian building was the highest and biggest in the fair while the US building was partly countersunk and of very low relief. It had an air supported roof of fabric so it was not very high above the ground.

The British, as usual, in their quiet way made a point of all their past and current contributions to western civilization with their various inventions, processes and developments both scientific and social. France was pretty much like the Russians in trying to show too much though not in the same overwhelming way, but it came off rather badly by comparison with other large countries. We had a lot of fun with meals, however, as we would seek out a little eatery where the Japanese people would go. There we ordered the same kind of food and ate it with chopsticks which interested all the onlookers. When you can handle spaghetti soup with the same utensils and aplomb as the Japanese you have earned their approval and we did. It is interesting that all over Japan they have the custom of making up replicas of their dishes in wax and placing them in a showcase outside the en- trance along with their prices. So you have a visual idea of what you are going to get for your money not just a word idea as with a menu. It makes meal shopping an interesting new game as you can go from place to place actually looking over the meal instead of just looking over the menu and its price. But we enjoyed the Expo very much thanks to my "friend back home and his magazine." Good old Charlie he always comes through for me.

Next stop was Tokyo, the world's largest city. It must be like Los Angeles in that it just spreads all over because the center of it was just like any other big city as far as buildings and shops were concerned. Though of course the poorer Japanese like the Chinese in Hong Kong don't occupy as much room per head as westerners do so more of them live per square mile. We did the usual tourist things and we took in the Kokusai Theater. This is sort of the reverse of the Kabuki in that it is an all-female troup with plenty of dancing girls a la Las Vegas but all the men's parts are done by girls, too. They cut their hair short and probably paste on some side burns. However, there is really

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