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...bullfight posters that dot the walls, pose for pictures beside his typewriter. Then they line up to sign the guest book, usually in Russian, Polish, Bulgarian, even Vietnamese. The house, a museum maintained by Cuba's National Council of Culture, was Ernest Hemingway's retreat just outside Havana. Of the nearly 18,000 yearly visitors who tramp through, over 70% are Russian. "The Russians have a great respect for Papa," said the caretaker, former Hemingway Servant Rene Villareal. "They can discuss all his books except one." Since it gives an unfavorable picture of the Communists in the Spanish...
...Havana -- Alee Guinness and Noel Coward in Graham Greene's screenplay. 2 DIVINITY AVE., tonight...
...kind of psychic agony, he finally turns on his white woman as the symbol of all his woes and throws her out. In a sequence of tear-jerking melodrama rather than honest emotional power, she commits suicide. Cowed and crushed, Jefferson accedes to his arranged defeat in Havana...
Esteban Montejo's autobiography is no more and no less than that. Shaped from notes and tape recordings, the recollections of this 107-year-old Cuban, now living in an old soldiers' home outside Havana, have all the rough charm of folk art. Such praise is not patronizing. Behind Montejo's colorful directness is a robust self-consciousness and dignity that should be the envy of his more sophisticated readers. The key to Montejo's attitude toward the ups and downs of his life is his phrase, "This is not sad because it is true...
Castro's indifference to the city dwellers is understandable. Cuba's greatest need is for more food. Rationing permits only eight ounces of beef per person each month, only three pounds of rice. In Havana people wait in line for hours at restaurants and markets to supplement their meager rations. "Lines are a social institution now," explains a Vedado woman. "They are also the only way to get anything...