Television: Kudos & Choler

"He wouldn't agree that Monday was Monday unless it would help him," a U.S. China hand once said of Red China's Premier Chou Enlai. When Chou was asked, by way of Burma's U Nu, to sit still for a filmed interview for U.S. television, Chou must have believed it would help him. It did not. But it helped those who saw a special rush edition of CBS's See It Now this week to get a remarkable portrait-with-sound of the man who is in name one of the masters of a fourth of the...

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