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...said a U.S. naval officer at Nha Be, "we'd be up to our neck. Estimates are that it would take anywhere from two to six months to reopen the channel. The U.S. command simply cannot afford to have that happen, since eight to ten large supply ships chug up the channel every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Guarding the Gauntlet | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

...another along in a few seconds that'll crack you up." Sprinkled throughout are quick flashes of famous faces (Peter Lawford, winking broadly: "You don't have to be happy to be gay"), and a variety of sight gags, such as Teletype streamers that chug across the bottom of the screen ("Eartha Kitt-call your draft board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedians: A Put-On Is Not a Put-Down | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...changed roles. Verdi composed like a playwright and Boito wrote like a musician. Take away all the words from Falstaff and you will still know exactly what is going on. When the orchestra trills from one end to the other, you know that Falstaff has just taken a colossal chug of wine which is going to work on his insides; when the trombones blast, you know that Ford is feeling the full gamut of green-eyed emotions, even without hearing him rant about "Gelosia"; and if you are a little pedantic, when you hear the French horns bay, you will...

Author: By Timothy Crouse, | Title: Falstaff | 11/21/1967 | See Source »

...leading a team of seven New Zealanders and an Aussie in an assault on the unclimbed 11,700-ft. peak, will then do a bit of "adventuring" in his first trip to the Antarctic since his journey to the South Pole in 1958. "I will be fit enough to chug about," said Everest's conqueror, "but I certainly won't be one of the bullets of the party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 20, 1967 | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

...MBTA and jerk and chug through Boston's murky underground and the swamps of Revere Beach. After 35 minutes and two changes you emerge at Wonderland Park, a latterday Babylon that is one of about 50 greyhound race tracks in the country...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: A NIGHT AT THE DOGS | 7/11/1967 | See Source »

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