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...years old, and was one of the screaming teen-agers who rode that '50s tram with Elvis [Aug. 29]. It doesn't matter that I have every Presley record released from November 1955 through June 1959 and none thereafter. It doesn't matter that I saw Elvis in person in 1957 but never again. It doesn't matter that I saw only the first four of his 33 movies and only the TV shows that he appeared on in the '50s. The bond that was established between Elvis and me so many years...
...Each of the Swiss-built cars carries up to 125 straphangers, at 50? a head. In case of a power failure, a huge diesel auxiliary drive system on the island can be put into action within five minutes, says the island's chief engineer, David Ozerkis. If the tram's driving mechanism breaks down, a red steel cage can be run out from the island to disembark stranded passengers. Wind speeds are constantly checked; service is stopped if gusts reach 45 m.p.h. On C-2's return trip, winds caused the tram to tilt...
Period Piece. The musical is constructed roughly as a troop tram's seven-day cross-country voyage from Los Angeles to New York. Patty and Maxene, costumed in a sort of WAC usherette motif, are lovably running the train's U.S.O. canteen. The 40s collage includes precautionary Army VD lectures, Glenn Miller band impersonations, little jokes about "going all the way," period slang ("cow juice and Java") and a likable fantasy of America's postwar dreams-Esther Williams bathing beauties backstroking across the dry stage...
...lulled to a deep tenderness. She confesses her secret, her virginity; he reveals that he had no intention of selling the land. Then, in a great, stormy, self-lacerating monologue, James explains why he is so hateful to himself. He had accompanied his mother's coffin on a tram from the West Coast to the East. Even drink could not blot out the pain of her death...
...quick profit, either. Ted Johnson, onetime manager of a ski lodge at Alta, Utah, last year opened Snowbird not many miles away. Johnson and his principal backer, Texas Oilman Dick Bass, have dumped $17 million into Snowbird, including $2,250,000 for a Swiss-built aerial tram that carries 125 people at a time up an 11,000-ft. incline to the main peak. The tram, most capacious of its kind in the world, is started and stopped by a computer. Johnson and Bass do not expect to be in the black for another ten years...