Agent Scare
Outcries from “perennial alarmists” who fear that the 1,000 new FBI agents recently authorized by Congress will turn up on college campuses is a “preposterous claim,” according to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
Good-bye Dolly
“Hello Dolly,” holder of the Broadway long-run record for a musical passing the old mark set by “My Fair Lady,” will end its showing with a matinee performance Dec. 27 in New York. That will be its 2,844th performance.
German Protest
About 2,000 young Germans marched through downtown Frankfurt Saturday to protest against alleged United States imperialism and called for the release of jailed Black Panther leader Bobby Seale and Angela Davis. Few Negroes were among the marchers.
Fast Frenchmen
Over motorists’ objections, the French government has decided to continue an experimental program of speed limits on selected routes. Normally there are no speed limits on French roads, but statistics from a 3-month period showed a 17.4 percent reduction in fatal accidents.
Costly Photo
A daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams, the first president to be photographed, was brought for 50 cents recently in an antique shop in Atlanta, Ga. The Smithsonian Institute purchased it from the man who found it for a four-figure sum. It is the third daguerreotype of Adams known to exist.
Reviewing Awards
Washington and Saigon are reviewing the awarding of medals to U.S. servicemen, in an effort to determine how much represents accomplishment and how much is tied up with procedure and public relations. “They’re handing them out like salted peanuts,” a young enlisted man in a division awards office said recently.
Peace Corps Plans
Plans for an international environmental program that will extend the work of the Peace Corps into such areas as water pollution, park development and forest management have been announced by the Peace Corps and the Smithsonian Institute. Both agencies have received requests for the services of trained specialists in many environmental areas.