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Taubman concluded that "Although warning may be a handicap in the world of musical comedy, lively minds aren't. Through Mr. Segal and Mr. Raposo the new Harvard generation may move into broadway as authoritatively as its predecessors have swarmed into Washington." Most captious of the reviewers was Judith Crist of the Herald-Tribune, who complained that the musical reminded her of a Hasty Pudding show. The perspicacious Miss Crist then added, "Erich Segal and Joseph Raposo, two Harvard men.... did indeed concoct the Hasty adding...
...milder Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Trujillo had been the model for every tinpot, medal-jingling dictator that ever rifled a Latin American treasury. Even as he died, he was on a typical Trujillo mission-a midnight meeting with one of his many mistresses, Moni Sanchez, at his San Cristóbal farm, 15 miles from Ciudad Trujillo...
...grew up in grinding poverty, a wiry, vicious brawler in his sugar-cane town of San Cristóbal. Opportunity arrived with the U.S. Marines, who landed in 1916 to watch over customs collections and bond payments, and who used Trujillo as an informer and procurer of obliging ladies. Trujillo's idol was a trigger-happy captain named C. F. Merkle, whose idea of order was shooting "troublemakers." Merkle was finally arrested, and committed suicide before he could be tried. But Trujillo went on to become boss of the Dominican armed forces, a position he used to make himself...
...vacuum there will be. After years of autocracy, the Dominican Republic was a stunned place. Thousands of Dominicans, many of them wailing hysterically, tried to jam into the tiny crypt of the church in San Cristóbal, where Trujillo's closed coffin was laid to rest. Ramfis ordered them out, then, with eyes blazing, vowed at his father's tomb to kill every one of the opposition. After the funeral, 1,000 suspected opponents of the regime were rounded up. Diaz' son was reported killed, and his wife held for torture; the government announced the death...
...management can make U.S. industry perform more effectively. Writing in Ordnance magazine, Russell A. Crist, until recently director of production policy at the Defense Department, bluntly noted: "There are rumblings loud enough to cause us all to ask whether the American free-enterprise system is properly geared to serve the national interest as well as itself. The mere fact that such opinion exists should cause businessmen to sit up and take notice." To make sure that they do take notice, Senator John McClellan's investigations subcommittee is about to examine missilemakers' performance...