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Song in Salzburg. As his oddly reckless vocabulary shows, the trip must have been a heady one for the footloose professor. Flying to Europe he sat beside "a very burly guy," agreed with him that the Hearstpapers were "lousy" and chatted "with a last shot of Canadian Club under our belts." In Salzburg, he showed that he could be one of the boys by riding through the streets late at night, singing with a truckload of students. And he had "one gay moment" at a beer party when fellow U.S. Lecturer Alfred Kazin led the group in singing the Internationale...
...Worst Enemy. In Köge, Denmark, Police Chief Vagn Bro raced in front of a train at a crossing, raced right on to the police station, fined himself 50 kroner for reckless driving...
...Gary, Ind., 77-year-old Arie Meyers was charged with reckless driving on his motor-scooter...
Brief Encounter. In Hagerstown, Md., Deputy Sheriff Robert Miller and City Policeman Harry Frush surveyed the scene of the crash, handed each other tickets for reckless driving...
...appropriating for TVA, Congress had refused to include $4,000,000 for a steam generator to backstop TVA's water power in dry seasons. "A reckless and irresponsible decision," said the President, pointing out that TVA supplies power for the Oak Ridge atomic plant. He signed the bill to extend the terms of AEC commissioners for two years, but declared that "the refusal of the Republican leadership to put the public interest first. . . invests the atomic energy program with an aura of uncertainty and partisan politics." (He did not recall that he had set Republican teeth on edge...