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Bang! Bang! Bang! NBC's Chet Huntley, for one, is worried that too many TV reporters in Viet Nam concentrate far too much on Safer-like shots, the kind of flaming action that ensures an appearance on the air at home. The military thinks that too many correspondents are out there for their "own personal aggrandizement," Huntley told a Variety reporter recently. ABC's Howard K. Smith took the same tack when he returned from a recent visit to Viet Nam. During the Buddhist demonstrations, he said, "television gave the impression that the whole country was rioting, instead...
Trumpet Player Chet Baker, still waiting at Los Angeles Airport at the hour his trio was due to perform in a nightclub near San Francisco, took his horn into a phone booth, piped his third of the music 350 miles north by wire and loudspeaker. A pretty young girl, pleading with a Chicago ticket clerk for a flight to a San Francisco wedding (her own), was surprised to hear the man in line behind her say: "Funny, I've got to get to San Francisco for a divorce-my own." Both got aboard...
POLITICS: THE OUTER FRINGE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Chet Huntley looks at the lunatics...
...KENNEDY (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). First of a two-part special on Kennedy, narrated by Chet Huntley. Henry Fonda reads excerpts from Kennedy's early writings...
...WHITE PAPER (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Chet Huntley examines the spread of nuclear weapons in interviews with U.S. and foreign government leaders...