Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senator Alejandro Almendras openly charged that the nation's Central Investigation Service-the Filipino equivalent of the FBIwas mixing sex with sleuthing. Six young women had been hired as agents. Instead, he charged, all they did was romp with top CIS brass while at the same time buying new cars, apartment houses, and turning in fictionalized expense accounts for supposed investigative trips to the provinces. Stung, Marcos turned investigator himself, promptly ordered the six women "agents" off the payroll, then fired all nine top officials...
...same. Last week Castro suddenly did more than frown. He announced the arrest of at least 20 "playboy officials" who were giving more of their time to the cocktail circuit than to Communism. Among them: Major Efigenio Al-meijeiras, a member of the party's Central Committee, Castro's vice minister of the armed forces, and the military's second in command-after Fidel's little brother Raul...
...that sin, Castro stripped Almeijeiras of his rank and booted him out of the government, the military and the Central Committee, giving him a chance to correct himself "by beginning his revolutionary life as he did the first time, without any position whatever." That way Almeijeiras may return to the social fold "a simple man and revolutionary" purged of his "illegal and vicious" ways. And the other playboys? "Nothing is going to happen to them," Castro assured. "We will send them to a hospital to be cured, and if they are crazy, to the insane asylum...
Much of the alumni attachment stems from Mem Hall's first 50 years (1874-1924) when it served as a central eating place at Harvard. One University official recalls an uncle (class of '95) who, up until a few years ago, annually had a reunion with his Mem Hall eating partners. "I suspect," says another official, "that if we announced the demolition of Mem Hall, we'd have a battle royal. Half the alumni would be on one side of the street asking us to tear it down and the other half would be yelling to keep...
...fact, Mem Hall's very desirability may be the agent that preserves it a few more years. The administration will want to put a crucial building in this Central location. What will it be? Harvard's planning evades precise prediction, and right now, the demands of five, ten, or twenty years from now are ambiguous. Somewhere within that ambiguity lies the future of Mem Hall...