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fne Boston Glofe Friday, August 23, 196S irnimiiinnnminnni ffluunnnnn Ask the Globe 3 a Names in News sib i mo ri 1 2i iff? i i Jjj ill) it -fs. ASK THE GLOBE serre readers by getting answers, tolling problems and cutting red tape. Telephone AV S-1515 any time; day or night, or write to "Ask the Globe," Boston Globe, Boston, Mass. 02107. Questions will be answered in the Eve-tiing Globe and in the Sunday Globe Magazine, Could you tell me about the Electoral College and how it works? Mrs.

Melrose. A The Electoral College consists of 538 electors, 435 corresponding to U.S. Representatives, 100 corresponding to Senators and three electors for the District of Columbia. Massachusetts has 14 electoral votes, two for our senators and 12 for our representatives in Congress. When you vote in a presidential election you are voting for a slate of 14 electors, either Republicans or Democrats, who have been gelected by their respective parties.

Winner takes all in the election. Whichever party receives the largest popular vote gets all 14 electoral votes. This year on December 16, the electors chosen by the voters meet in their state capitols and cast their votes. The results are certified by the state governors and sent by registered mail to the President of the Senate in Washington. They are opened before a joint meeting of the House of Representatives and the Senate held by law on Jan.

6 with the Vice President, as President of the Senate, presiding. Candidates for President and Vice President receiving a required majority of at least 270 votes, are declared elected and take the oath of office two weeks later. If no candidate receives an electoral vote majority, the election of the President goes to the House of Representatives and the election of the Vice President to the Senate. The House of Representative votes for the three presidential candidates who have received the greatest number of electoral votes. Each state has only one vote and the decision of the majority of its representatives determines the vote.

A presidential candidate must receive the vote of at least 26 states to have the necessary majority for election. storage tracks (2) erection of chain link fence in median strip, and (3) widening of passenger waiting platforms, to reduce hazards. (Joe Dennehy photo) SIDEWALK ROLLBACK Slicing 16 feet off lawn of Northeastern University's dormitory facing Huntington av. (heavy broken line) will enable (1) relocation of M.B.T.A. trolley car Huntington Av.

Face-Lifting Carmine Lombardozzi arrested. (UPI) FBI Arrest 8 in N.Y. Check Ring Eight men, including reputed Mafia leader Carmine Lombardozzi, have been arrested in New York by the FBI in connection with an alleged stolen check racket. The scheme allegedly involved the opening of a checking account in the name of a brokerage house, stealing customers' checks, depositing them, then withdrawing the funds made out to cash. The men were charged with not only conspiring to transport but actually transporting a stolen $17,000 check from New Jersey to New York.

All eight pleaded innocent. Daniel P. Holl-man of the Justice Department said that $70,000 in checks had, been stolen but that no money was lost because the operation was broken fore, any checks could be cashed. Nixon Relaxes at Key Biscayne Republicans-presidential nominee Richard M. Nixon, trailed by Secret Service agents in Miami, donned the casual garb of a Florida tourist Thursday and went for a boat ride.

Nixon and the agents boarded a houseboat for a cruise in Biscayne Bay along the Miami shore. Only the bulge of guns under the knit shirts of the security detail distinguished the party from other tourists. Nixon later returned to his two-story, oceanfront villa at Key Biscayne Hotel where he has been relaxing before resuming his campaign. Widening of Trolley Platforms And Street to Begin in 1969 w4 To-HORSEFLIES; NO fttffc HERE TO F. 7 9 Wit S3, lVT By A.

S. PLOTKIN The mile of Huntington av. beyond Symphony Hall has become Boston's busiest student street and one of the most hazardous. The trolley car platforms are too narrow, and there have been serious accidents. The M.B.T.A.

has a third pair of tracks which swing out into the street opposite Northeastern University, and auto traffic is hampered. And students by the hundred nonchalantly cross the street. These shortcomings will be. greatly reduced beginning next year under joint action by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, and Public Works Dept. It will cost about $1.2 million, and require the taking of about 35,000 square feet of land in the form of strips owned by Northeastern and other institutions as far West as Brigham Circle.

The B.R.A. has had meetings with representatives of the institutions. None, understandably, is happy about sacrificing land, but most have informally indicated they will cooperate. sts. This would vary in width, from 16 feet to four feet.

The Museum of Fine Arts would lose a strip about 700 feet in length, varying in width from five to eleven I feet. (Museum officials indicate they would prefer staggered waiting platforms facing their institution for pa- I trans. And they have been promised that a row of trees next to the street curb would be re-planted, further back). On the South side of the i avenue, opposite the muse- um, Wentworth would lose a long strip, ranging in width from 4Jfc feet to about 10 feet. The frontage of Boston State College, about 600 feet, would be sliced, from 414 feet to about 10 Vi feet.

The lawn fronting the 24-story Charlesbank Apartments tower, for' about 250 feet, would be set back about 9 feet. And some 800 feet of Peter Bent Brigham Hospital land would be cut, varying from 3 to 5 feet. More drastic changes" in' the appearance of Huntington av. will come with the building of the Inner Belt highway (which will tunnel under the street), but because of delays this probably won't happen for another eight years, at least. How can we get rid of horseflies around our pool? They are around constantly and always biting.

We have tried many sprays but nothing work. K.H., Burlington A Horseflies are attracted by food, fresh or old, or any other decomposing matter. A good policing of the pool area and strict control of food would probably discourage the horseflies. Yu might try spraying the area with one of the new yard spraying machines which lay down a dense fog of insecticide. They're available in nursery and department stores but are relatively expensive.

I t. NIXON WESTMORELAND Come Again Westmoreland Warns of Viet Push Gen William C. Westmorplanrl Armv Thipf One way to get the right information is to print something incorrect. Last week we said there were no rabbit shows in the area, and since then we have received notices of shows in Topsfield and Worcester. The Massachusetts Dept.

of Agriculture gives Sept. 15 as the date for the Massachusetts Federation Rabbit Show at the Topsfield Fair, and Nov. 9 and 10 for the Worcester County Rabbit Show in Sutton, on Shaw rd. They also list the Mohawk Rabbit Show in South Spencer on Sturbridge Oct. 20.

You may also find rabbit shows at many local fairs which do not announce a complete schedule of their events in Are Soviet Generals Running Show? Crisis Shows Military Hold Balance in 3-Way Kremlin Power Struggle When will the three-day holidays go into effect? W.M., Weymouth. A Chapt. 24 of the General Laws of 19(53 goes into effect in 1969. Three major holidays will then be three day week-ends. Washington's Birthday will be celebrated on the third Monday in February, Patriot's Day on the third Monday in April and Memorial Day will fall on the last Monday in May.

(The B.R.A., if it wished, could seize the land under eminent domain powers; but voluntary action is preferable.) The action was triggered by the state Dept. of Public Utilities, which was worried over the narrowness of the waiting platforms. Widening them involved widening the street itself. And the MBTA was powerless to do that. It became feasible only when the worked out a joint arrangement with the other public agencies.

As a a result, the following steps will be taken: The trolley car platforms will be widened, to a minimum of seven feet. (The may also erect a shelter near Northeastern.) Three of the eight trolley car stops will be eliminated. (These will be at Wigglesworth opposite Wentworth Institute Annex and at Forsyth st.) The roadway will be widened, for nearly all of the one-mile stretch, to a minimum of 30 feet on each side. KOSYGIN riding it out balance of pewer. The civilian with powerful alliances among the generals increases his chance of success.

Clearly, the invasion of Czechoslovakia was a military decision, and almost as clearly, there was a quarrel about it in the Kremlin involving three factions: those who wanted to go slowly and cautiously, those who wanted to move swiftly to crush the Czechoslovak movement, and those on the fence. It appears the balance wielded by the generals carried the day. Pravda, voice of the Kremlin, complains that "there have been certain attempts to deal a blow at the Warsaw treaty." in Czechoslovakia. It thunders that "no breach in the Warsaw treaty must be allowed." Then it adds: 'Czechoslovak frontiers on the west were actually open from the Czechoslovak side. This created a situation in which saboteurs and spies smuggled by imperialist intelligence services began crossing freely into Czechoslovakia from Western countries." One man who thinks much about "important intelli- gence is Gen Sergei M.

Shtemenko, author of a recent book praising Stal- I LaataJk i (This width cannot be uniform for the total distance until Peter Bent Brigham Hospital begins its major new building program, probably in the mid-1970's). The MBTA's storage track near Northeastern will be relocated to a position between the two main sets of tracks. A chain link fence will be erected in the middle of the trolley car reservation, to achieve the same kimd of controlled pedestrian traffic that has proved successful on Commonwealth opposite Boston University buildings. Since the area is in the Fenway some of the cost will be re- paid by Federal funds. Here is how the major institutional abuttors would be affected, under a preliminary design: Northeastern -wfluld lose.

16-foot strip on the North side of the street. This would be for 445 feet, between Opera place and Forsyth st. Also, a nearly similar length on the South side, between Forsyth and Parker BREZHNEV in trouble in. He once was deputy defense minister and in charge of military intelligence. His fortunes fell with Stalin's death and he was reduced several ranks.

Suddenly he rose again, and in 1965 showed up as deputy chief of the Soviet general staff. At the height of the Czechoslovak crisis this month, Shtemenko was named chief of staff of the Warsaw forces. It may have been that his predecessor, Gen M. I. Kazakov, was fired by the Politburo as a scapegoat for their unpleasant backdown from their demands on the reform-minded Czechoslovak leaders.

Kazakov was known as a hawk who likely would have been pleased to have Marshal Ivan Yakubovsky, the pact commander, crush the whole Czechoslovak nuisance at the outset. The debate in the Kremlin may have deterred that sort of action in favor of negotiations. If so, the generals probably waited fretfully for the outcome, with which they could hardly have been pleased. UPHEAVAL AT TOP Th Soviet Politburo, of- iilS it jsi ww. ill of Staff, said Thursday the North Vietnamese are likely.

tq Jaunch a major offensive during the Democratic National Convention. Westmore- land, former U.S. commander in Vietnam, said the purpose of such an offensive would be to "encourage an attitude of frustration" among Americans. Westmoreland issued the warning at an airport news conference in Philadelphia after his arrival here to address the 47th annual con- vention of The Disabled American Veterans. He said recent shelling of Saigon "might be the be- ginning of such an offensive.

The enemy is poised." Doris Day's Son Ruled Executor Terrence P. Melcher, 26, son of Doris Day and the late Martin Melcher, will be permitted to administer his father's $1.3 million estate. The producer died Apr. 20 without leaving a will. 1 Miss Day named her son to administer the estate but Melcher's former business partner, Jerome 1 B.

Rosenthal, challenged his competence. Supe- rior Court Judge Martin Katz of Los Angeles ruled Thursday there was no evidence that Melcher was incompetent and described him as "intelligent and conscientious." R.I. Priest Leaves Church to Marry The Rev. Michael J. Moakler, a Roman Catholic priest in the Providence, R.I., diocese, has confirmed that he and the former Miss Elea- nor M.

Travers were married Aug. 1 by a town clerk in Seekonk, Mass. He said he has applied 1 for a job teaching high school Latin or English. His wife is a bank clerk. He said they are trying to obtain Church validation of their marriage, 1 and that he left the priesthood because of a "personal conviction that I could find content 1 only in the married state." On Jan.

4 the Metropolitan District Commission pipes broke and flooded large areas of Maiden, including the street on which I live. To date we are waiting for some sort of settlement from the MDC for damages. Can you find out when claims will be settled? I.W., Maiden. A The Metropolitan District Commission has voted to engage a professional appraiser who will Investigate and discuss claims with a view of making lettlements shortly. This should be a simple task but I have been nnable to find the information.

How many Protestants are there in the United States, how many Catholics and how many Jews? How many in the world? M.B., Attleboro. A The Encyclopedia Britannica gives the following figures: Protestants Catholics Jews United States 66.854,200 44,874,371 World 229,290,000 595,472,000 13,382,000 Associated FrcM By WILLIAM L. RYAN Something seems to be wrong with the Soviet Union's "collective leadership." Against the background of several years of political maneuvering in Moscow, the invasion of Czechoslovakia suggests a struggle at the top of the Kremlin power structure, with generals and lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll NEWS ANALYSIS iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniii marshals playing an active and, perhaps decisive role. The Soviet power structure, by its nature, has seemed a built-in barrier to any real detente in the East-West cold war. And now, Soviet press treatment of the Czechoslovak tragedy supports speculation that the marshals and generals have a big say in running the show, a situation which bodes no good for civilian leaders who a raise their hostility.

Since Stalin's death the military lias occupied a more and more prominent role in Soviet politics. Politicians contending for power often had to lean on the generals for support, as Nikita S. Khrushchev did when lie threw his foes out cf the party and as the new group under Leonid I. Brezhnev did when it threw out Khrushchev. BALANCE OF POWER The Soviet party always has been careful to assert publicly snd frequently its domination over the military.

But in time of crisis th military can hold the SHTEMENKO hawk or dove? YAKUBOVSKY i commander-in-chief ter the meeting with the Czechoslovaks at Bratislava early this month, took the unusual action of announcing that it approved the actions of the Soviet delegation. That was the same as saying the Politburo approved what the Politburo did. The delegation had been made up of almost the entire Politburo. This supported the impression that some sort of debate, perhaps a tense one, was in progress. At one point chairman Brezhnev, appearing to be on the fence between hawks dand doves, appealed for in-nerparty discipline in words litltl "TBf fx I'm still waiting for my Federal tax refund for 1967.

I've been unemployed since May, 1907 and am In desperate need of the money. W.F.R., Dorchester. A After the Internal Revenue Service reviewed your account, it Vks determined that you do indeed merit a refund. You will receive a refund check including interest wilhin two weeks, says Norman E. Morrill, director of the Internal Revenue Service Center, North-Atlantic Region, Andover, Mass.

Harrimans to Week-end in Spain Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, U.S. representative at the Paris peace talks, flew to Spain with his wife Thursday for a long weekend with friends near Alicante on the Mediterranean Coast. V5 3 i 3 "Ask the Globe" will study every Inquiry, but the number of calls and volume of mail art so great that it fn't possible to answer every question, ((tiestions will he chosen for general interest. Please don't Include a self-addressed stamped envelope.

If your question, your problem or your rripe Is Interelnf, we want to share it with all the readers of the Boston Evening Globe and The Sunday Globe. To enable us to obtain an answer, be sure to five gpfcifle details, locations, time, etc. strangely reminiscent of the critical power-struggle time-directly after Stalin's death. A political upheaval at the top of the Soviet ladder cannot be ruled out as a result of the Czechoslovak crisis and its consequences. Pre mier Alexei N.

Kosygin, more technician than politician, might survive it despite his apparently dovish tendencies, but Brezhnev as a fence-sitting politician, be in terioui difficulty..