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...Public opinion, nonetheless, continued overwhelmingly to support Hoover's view, which in turn reflected precisely the thoughts of Chi cago Mayor Richard Daley. The Mayor last week kept up his own counterbarrage to the "distortions" of the news media by broadcasting an hour-long documentary over 150 television sta tions throughout...
Huntley and Brinkley are off the air, their show abruptly shelved. Lawrence Spivak, Mike Wallace and Curt Gowdy are fired outright. Edwin Newman is still on the payroll but restricted to covering baseball. Howard K. Smith has been forcibly retired, and Eric Sevareid has been rusticated to the local sta tion in Keokuk. In their place are unknown third-stringers, providing bland, cursory newscasts culled from the wire services. Translated from the French, that is the situation U.S. televiewers would face this week...
...hurry is hopeless, but it is a good idea to learn the Cyrillic alphabet. Many words, especially on signs, are really French or English; pecTopaH simply spells "restaurant," Tede^OH spells "telephone." It also helps to memorize about a dozen words or phrases such as "please" (pronounced puzhzal'sta), "thank you" (spaseeba), "now" (saychas), and "then" (patom), for restaurant ordering. The larger Intourist restaurants have menus in four languages including English, and it is a good idea to liberate one-preferably with permission-as soon as possible. Thus armed, the visitor finds it easy to order meals...
Summer festivals have become a sta ple of the theatrical scene, and Shake speare is a staple of summer festivals...
Hans Koningsberger is plainly dis satisfied with much that has been writ ten about Red China. He scorns "sta tistics" served up by China-watchers. He wants no part of journalistic "prej udice" or "travelogues." In this slim account, he professes to add his own new dimension - "a novelist's descrip tion of the moods and atmosphere" inside the world's most secretive closed society...