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...blindfolded. There is a reason for that: headlights must be dimmed or even doused for much of the trip because of marauding aircraft. At the end of his run, a driver unloads his cargo at a transfer point and heads back for more. Each section, called a binh tram (logistical support) system, is under a separate command. "The man who runs a binh tram system is Mr. Greyhound," says a U.S. Air Force officer. "He says 'Send them down' or 'Hold them.' " Shipping time for any one load: about two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Indispensable Lifeline | 2/15/1971 | See Source »

Meanwhile, North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces moved closer to the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh yesterday, surrounding the town of Tram Khnar, located on the main highway 25 miles south of the capital. They also attacked a key highway junction and blew up a bridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REAL WORLD | 5/19/1970 | See Source »

...particular trouble conveying the blunt, even coarse speech of Masha, but she has not sufficiently plumbed the poetic sensitivity that lies beneath. It is not a bad performance; it just leaves a great deal yet to be explored. The problem of Masha's and Vershinin's drum-roll exchanges ("Tram-tam-tam ... tra-ra-ra"), the shortest mutual love scene ever written for the stage, has been effectively solved by substituting complementary phrases from the aria "All men should once with love grow tender" in Act II of Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Chekhov's 'Three sisters' Admirably Staged | 8/5/1969 | See Source »

These gyrations seem not so much foolish as pathetic when viewed next to Bruno's twilight world. As he declines, the perception that life is a kind of dream through which most men move like drunken tram conductors struggles in his mind with his fading recollections of the flesh. Bruno recalls the anguish of his early loves, his failure with his son, and cannot keep the distant memory of these trumpery things, even now, from shredding his heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hanging by a Thread | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...film studio, then they want to go to Disneyland. So he is giving them a Disneyland of a film studio. He is spending $50 million on tourist facilities alone, including a projected 1,800-room "hotel of the stars." Visitors ride around in a three-car surrey-topped tram, getting near views of miscellaneous Munsters and other TV personalities. Under glass in the office tower they can see the computer which Wasserman uses in order to complete cost control and time factor studies, and run his studio like a good machine tool factory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: A New Kind of King | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

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