Letter from Seattle.

This article focuses on the Century 21 Exposition, the Seattle World's Fair which opens on April 21, 1962. The pressures which urged its birth are not unique to the Pacific Northwest, although the physical plant which these pressures have finally determined is unique in this nation at the present. The normal human obstructions of conservatism, apathy and the frictions of greed and envy, which made much of the early going difficult, are universal, but the success with which they have been overcome, and fairly rapidly, are unusual anywhere. But next October 1963, at the end of its World's Fair, Seattle will be about $85 million.