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Montreal Expo’67 Dome Sequence:
"On May 28, 1967-- three month’s before Allegra’s birthday-- a set of swift unpredicted events intimate to all this chronicling took place.
"Anne and Bucky went on May 28, via Carbondale, to the official opening of the World’s Fair, Expo’67, at Montreal. Both of them were overjoyed at the reception of Bucky’s geodesic dome installed at the U.S.A.'s pavilion. The millions who have already viewed and entered it seemed inspired. They said so quite freely. Anne and Bucky could hear the public’s words as they walked around in the crowds. It represented a very extraordinary moment for Anne and Bucky-- this being the year of their 50th wedding anniversary.
"To Anne the Expo dome seemed to give sublime validation to the extraordinary backing she has given Bucky.
“When he was a little boy his mother used to tell Bucky about the Taj Mahal and showed him pictures of it. His mother felt it to be the most beautiful building in all the world and sensed that its beauty went beyond its structural and material exquis-”
