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Among newsmen in Havana last week, a tall tale or an outright lie drew the same jeering rejoinder: "Even Drew Pearson wouldn't believe that!" The catch phrase was inspired by a recent seven-day vacation in which, Columnist Pearson explained, he planned to "get away from the incessant drumbeat of American politics . . . into the more romantic bongo drumbeat of Cuban politics...
...dark of the year-the winter solstice-is the feast of light. Long ago men lit bonfires to strengthen the expiring sun; the Romans celebrated the seven-day Saturnalia with outdoor illuminations and gifts of candles; the Christians came to honor Christmas with a light-decked tree. For the Jews, the feast of light is Hanukkah...
...Living Desert (which cost $300,000) and The Vanishing Prairie ($400,000), are bulling toward world grosses of $5,000,000 and $4,000,000 respectively. And all over the world, holiday revivals of old Disney favorites are flourishing. In Rio de Janeiro six movie houses are running a seven-day Festival do Disney, and the main department stores have based their Christmas decorations on Disney characters. Said one merchant: "Disney will soon be to us what Santa Claus...
...professional Africa hand, but a good observing traveler, is Esther Warner. Her SEVEN DAYS To LOMALAND (269 pp.; Houghton Mifflin; $3.50) is the story of a seven-day hike she made across Liberia to witness the native trial-by-ordeal of a houseboy accused of thievery. Her account is charming and clear-eyed...
...successfully steal. But when the Russians change a line, they really change it. As part of the new propaganda drive to persuade everyone that the East and West can cooperate, a passel of Russan scientists arrived breathlessly and unexpectedly last week in Copenhagen on the fourth day of a seven-day gathering of the International Union for the Protection of Nature...