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...wily Premier Chou Enlai. From the U.S., after firm final guidance from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, went Ambassador Ural Alexis Johnson, 46, able career diplomat and specialist on northeast Asia. This will be no glare-bathed conference on general principles like the Parley at the Summit; chances are that it will be a long, quiet conference grinding away at details...
THERE is an important political postscript to be written out of the summit conference at Geneva. Have the Russians been able to persuade President Eisenhower to run in 1956? I am sure that he is nearer today to decision to stand for re-election than he was before he sat down at the conference table...
...need for writers of quality is matched by an even greater need for writers without it (to feed the insatiable electronic monster). At the summit of the giant networks, the executives sound very much alike. Says CBS's President Frank Stanton: "This is the time for writers. I think they're going to inherit the earth." Then he adds: "Mass circulation is the important thing, and you pay a price for it. But formula shows often have a professional quality that so-called quality shows wish they had." NBC's President Sylvester L. ("Pat") Weaver Jr. readily...
...minutes, Meeting at the Summit tried to cover so much ground (including a snappy history of the last ten years) that it never pricked the surface. The Christian Science Monitor's Correspondent Joseph C. Harsch was flown in from Geneva, and breathlessly announced: "The biggest fact I came back with is this: people there are calm and confident." Others made it clear that the East was lined up against the West. To the unabashed clichés on audio were wedded equally tired clichés on video. The challenge of such a TV show is at once...
Meeting at the Summit had no idea, no visible direction and a poor picture sense. In the words of trade sheet Variety, it was a lot of "thisa-without-much-data...