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...moon rose over London's Albert Hall to cue in a loony howler called the Greater-Than-London Fire New Moon Carnival of Poetry. Some 2,000 shaggies and stringies in mod costume settled down for a cultural evening that began with a villanelle of squeals and grunts. The caterwauling doggerel went on, with the audience chanting a "Sound Mass"-"MUTAMA! MUTAMA! M'MUTA!"-and Actress Vanessa Redgrave, 29, whose benefit appearances in the past have included ban-the-bomb marches, standing up in Castro-style fatigues to sing Fidel's freedom song, Guantanamera. Before the moon...
...This howler was overshadowed by the plan he introduced shortly afterward for exchanging scholars with other nations. The Government-financed scholarships still bear his name and, complains one Senator, "a lot of people think Bill pays for them out of his own pocket...
...Jose, that U.S. hunters are heading. There, packs of as many as 1,000 wild pigs grunt through the bush, uprooting and trampling all the foliage in their path. Timid, 600-lb. tapirs-distant relatives of the African rhinoceros-plod warily along the narrow, muddy trails. Chachalacas, parrots and howler monkeys noise endlessly from the tree tops...
...Call Me Charlie! (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). PREMIÈRE of still another new situation howler about a young Iowa veterinarian who is drafted into the Army and stationed in Paris...
...satirized are the U.N., the Russians, TV commercials, Edward R. Murrow, and fallout shelters. Only a rather childish mind would think calling a Russian girl "Beulah Beulahvich" is funny, but Mr. Morey and Mr. Paul do it anyway in a scene about two Soviets in a satellite. After that howler is repeated, Beulah reads a letter from the government saying. "On Stalin Prize certificate for 1952, read 'Lenin.'" Very funy, or at least it would be if the joke weren't older than the actors. And so it goes, in so many scenes: the tried-and-true, hoary wisecracks...