Word: steams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...investigation by the Senate panel (TIME, March 8). Assigned to the massive 25-sq.-mi. Long Binh supply depot as post commander in 1968, Castle discovered that Brigadier General Earl F. Cole, a deputy chief of staff at the depot, had authorized Mme. Phuong to open an on-post steam bath and massage parlor. Cole has since been demoted to colonel and stripped of his decorations by the Army for his part in Viet Nam service club frauds...
Flying Dragons. The steam bath, recalled Castle, "was a beautiful layout. I rode by every day watching it go up. I hadn't thought too much about it until one day . . . there were these big nude statues on the front. On an Army base, big bronze nudes! The first thought that entered my mind was, 'Oh my God, if TIME or LIFE or somebody comes by here, we've had it.'*I told Mme. Phuong that she had until 4 o'clock to get the nudes down or I would have my sergeant major there...
Castle also gave Mme. Phuong two hours to get the 200 Coke-sipping ladies off the post, and ordered her to take the doors off her massage rooms as a further bar to hanky-panky. In addition, he sent agents of the Criminal Investigation Division into the steam bath to keep an eye on what was happening. "1 may not have had the best CID over there," he told amused Senators, "but I had the cleanest...
...building, which is over 150 years old, is in dilapidated condition. There are open steam pipes and wires and only primitive plumbing and heating facilities...
Harvard officials said Saturday that the steam pipes are old and might damage anyone approaching them too closely. But one woman said. "The problems of heat and electricity are not insurmountable. If it were that dangerous, Harvard would not have held classes here. Harvard has an obligation to the women of this community to restore the heat and donate the building for a women's center...