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...Imbert quietly rallied loyalist troops to fight the growing concentration of well-armed rebels in the northern part of the city. With tanks and heavy artillery, one column pushed in from the western garrison of San Cristóbal, 17 miles from Santo Domingo. Another column rolled down from the north across Peynado Bridge. In all, Imbert gathered 2,000 troops to attack an estimated 1,000 rebels holed up in an area that contains, among other things, low-income dwellings, small shops, the city's only peanut oil plant and the Pepsi-Cola plant, which provided an almost...
...JUDITH CRIST...
Along the way, Mrs. Crist has also become a feature attraction on NBC-TV's Today show, where, she says, "My criticism comes across more strongly than in print." Last March, she managed to pan three super-spectaculars in one brief appearance: The Greatest Story Ever Told ("A kind of dime-store holy picture"), Lord Jim ("A lot of heavy five-cent philosophy"), and The Sound of Music (she found the children "strictly loathsome...
That was probably the most savage criticism The Sound of Music, a generally sunny film starring Julie Andrews, drew from anyone. Mrs. Crist acknowledged the ensuing uproar: "You can be against God; you can be against Conrad; but brother, if you're against The Sound of Music, you're the lowest of the low. If I had beaten my mother to a pulp, strangled my small child, and slit the throat of my little puppy dog, I wouldn't have seemed so odious...
Acerbic Speech. Naturally, Hollywood was anxious to see the Eastern Medusa, and the Hollywood Publicists' Guild invited Mrs. Crist to address a luncheon in Beverly Hills last month. If there was an outstretched hand, she not only disdained it; she bit it. Following Frank Sinatra's light and witty talk on his life and loves ("Must have had six gag writers," mused Crist), she plunged into an acerbic speech: "Back where I come from, Hollywood is a dirty word." Said an aggrieved 20th Century-Fox publicist: "She is a snide, supercilious, sour bitch. The thing she would hate...