Washington Briefs

--A House banking subcommittee has scheduled a Nov. 22 hearing on the Carter administration's new anti-inflation program. The group will hear testimony from Alfred E. Kahn, chairman of the Council on Wage and Price Stability.

--The United States and Hungary have signed an agreement by which the two countries will cooperate in cancer research.

--Sen. Charles Mathias (R-Md.) has called upon the Senate Judiciary Committee to be more precise in its questioning of presidential nominees for federal judgeships.

In a letter to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.). who is set to become the committee chairman when the next session of Congress meets, Mathias outlined questioning that would seek to learn more about the nominees' experience in the legal profession, possible conflicts of interest and the process by which the person came to be nominated.