Television: Review

Nasser Interview: To its gallery of foreign statesmen sitting for candid TV interviews, e.g., Russia's Nikita Khrushchev, China's Chou Enlai, CBS this week added President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the new United Arab Republic. Well-tailored and suave, speaking in near-perfect English (though he kept saying "freezed" for "froze"), Nasser discussed his plans to visit Moscow this month, and announced a Russian "loan" of 25 factories that will be set up in Egypt. Under hard-hitting questioning by CBS Cairo Correspondent Frank Kearns, Nasser composedly kept returning to a pat explanation for Egypt's antagonism toward...

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