Word: centrally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MANHATTAN IS MISSING, by E. W. Hildick (Doubleday; $3.95). A science-fiction title, a threatening ransom note, a secret meeting, and a wild chase across Central park-all more or less in pursuit of Manhattan, a fussy Siamese...
...Central Mysteries. Actually, Rome's reform was an attempt to carry out one of the mandates of the Second Vatican Council: to update an antiquated liturgical calendar that was cluttered with unfamiliar, and in some cases probably fictional figures. Some of the updating consisted of replacing little-known early martyrs (and no less than 17 early Popes) with a wider sampling of countries and vocations: the newly included Uganda martyrs,* for instance, are among the calendar's relatively few laymen. A more important reason: renewed emphasis through the liturgical year on the central mysteries of Christ...
Games are the wars of boys, and wars are the games of men. This is the central motif of an arrestingly unorthodox production of Henry V, which opened the American Shakespeare Festival Theater season last week at Stratford, Conn...
...CUTTING THE PAPER. This is the most pressing problem at present, but also the one that the exchange, under Haack, has gone farthest toward overcoming. It is slowly phasing into operation a Central Certificate Service, which will transfer stocks from one brokerage account to another by making electronic bookkeeping entries. That will end the archaic system under which messengers now lug bags of stock certificates between brokers' offices in the Wall Street area. This week the exchange also will show off to the press a new computerized system for matching the institutions' big buy-and-sell orders. Next...
Striving to placate all factions, the film actually represents none. One moment Che is a cultural hero; the next he is a messianic psychopath. As for Russia and the CIA, the film makes them worse than villains by reducing them to bystanders who have nothing to do with the central melodrama. The driven, half-poetic half-delusive doctor has become a worldwide legend in the past three years. Though his body was seen and identified, he is still rumored to be alive somewhere in the mountains of South America. If anyone doubts Che's death he has only...