For the Record

Butterfly McQueen, 55 (who played Prissy so wonderfully well in “Gone With the Wind” and thanked God for Joe McCarthy and the FBI on the Mike Wallace show), is out of work in Augusta, Ga. . . . Already yet: Medicare (start-up July 1) has the nation’s 5,600 pathologists at odds with the bureaucrats. They want to bill the patient direct, like other accredited physicians, not get paid on salary basis by hospital. And from Belgium, the sop-story of its 9,000 socialized physicians who demanded 25 per cent pay increase, got 5 per cent, may strike. … In the City Hall doghouse, despite disclaimers: Deputy Mayor Robert Price. His “request” that PD leave six top detective posts vacant seriously compromised Mayor John Lindsay ‘ s non-interference policy, earned Hizzoner his first public rap on the knuckles from watchdog (and stalking-horse) Council President Frank 0’Connor.

Circulating in world capitals: pornographic letter over J. Edgar Hoover’s signature. Forgery traced to Soviet State Security Service, which often plants scurrilous items with “special correspondent” taglines in newspapers worldwide. . . . Plans for House Foreign Affairs Committee hearings on American policy re apartheid stirring resentment in South Africa. One Afrikaans newspaper says Rep. Barrett O’Hara’s group will be interfering in domestic affairs of a friendly nation, thinks maybe the South African Parliament ought to examine treatment accorded American Indians. . . . Morocco bleakly scouting other sources to replace French aid ($90 million/year) in event Ben Barka case forces diplomatic break. Samaritans all on French leave. . . . Australian suppliers sputtering over major U.S. contracts with Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore for Vietnam supplies while Aussies fight there. Sent McNamara a list of available goods in bid for more U.S. orders.

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Butterfly McQueen, 55 (who played Prissy so wonderfully well in “Gone With the Wind” and thanked God for Joe McCarthy and the FBI on the Mike Wallace show), is out of work in Augusta, Ga. . . . Already yet: Medicare (start-up July 1) has the nation’s 5,600 pathologists at odds with the bureaucrats. They want to bill the patient direct, like other accredited physicians, not get paid on salary basis by hospital. And from Belgium, the sop-story of its 9,000 socialized physicians who demanded 25 per cent pay increase, got 5 per cent, may strike. … In the City Hall doghouse, despite disclaimers: Deputy Mayor Robert Price. His “request” that PD leave six top detective posts vacant seriously compromised Mayor John Lindsay ‘ s non-interference policy, earned Hizzoner his first public rap on the knuckles from watchdog (and stalking-horse) Council President Frank 0’Connor.

Circulating in world capitals: pornographic letter over J. Edgar Hoover’s signature. Forgery traced to Soviet State Security Service, which often plants scurrilous items with “special correspondent” taglines in newspapers worldwide. . . . Plans for House Foreign Affairs Committee hearings on American policy re apartheid stirring resentment in South Africa. One Afrikaans newspaper says Rep. Barrett O’Hara’s group will be interfering in domestic affairs of a friendly nation, thinks maybe the South African Parliament ought to examine treatment accorded American Indians. . . . Morocco bleakly scouting other sources to replace French aid ($90 million/year) in event Ben Barka case forces diplomatic break. Samaritans all on French leave. . . . Australian suppliers sputtering over major U.S. contracts with Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore for Vietnam supplies while Aussies fight there. Sent McNamara a list of available goods in bid for more U.S. orders.