CBS News launched the third season of its news-magazine with a diversity of subject matter encased in three segments (ever 20 minutes) and with the crack team Reasoner/Wallace as anchormen and interviewers.
Major segment of the program was drawn from the book "The China Cloud", also footage of the Red Chinese nuclear explosion. Another segment featured an interview with the young Palestinian girl Leila Khaled.
"Cannery Row" talks to the Secretary of the Interior Walter Hickel about the collapse of the sardine industry. "George McGovern" interviews the senator from South Dakota. "Aaron Copland at 70" profiles the popular composer on his seventieth birthday.
"Fellini on Fellini" interviews the famous Italian director Federico Fellini on the set of his latest film. "A National Scandal" investigates the failure of HUD's FHA 235 program revealing complaints about shoddy workmanship and unsafe building practices. "A Minute or So" features James J. Kilpatrick talking about federal waste. "Romania's Jews" looks at Romania's tolerant treatment of Jews. "A Minute or So" features Rev. Billy Graham on Judaism.