Jim Faber, the enthused pointer closest to the highly speculative sketch of Century 21 in its earl phases, was a very good friend of mine and a mentor too. As the text tells, Jim was the co-director of the fair when the work of convincing the federal government to participate was crucial. Of course, they succeeded, although the Science Center looked nothing like the one imagined here – nor the Needle. Jim was such a good promoter in Washington D.C. that he was asked to take the job of press agent – media rep – for Mo Udahl’s Dept of the Interior, and he accepted. Of course, he eventaully returned to Seattle and lived out his life here editing the Enetide, the Washington State Ferry’s commuter’s tabloid. and writing two well-wrought books, “The Irreverant Guide to Washington State” and “Steamers Wake,” the story of the “Mosquito Fleet.”