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The Boston Globe Thursday, February 18, 1971 Cambridge passers-by react 0i i- I sL, If ft4'1" 1 AO -1 iiiir 7v-A lllf i lb ti! iiiiv rare view of David Niven -il, 1L it i I if 1 DAVID THE GOLIATH Eighteen- front of Harvard Lampoon building in foot' statue of David Niven' stands in Cambridge. (Paul Connell photo) METRO ROUNDUP to a By Richard Connolly Globe Staff The sun burst over the Harvard campus yesterday, exposing a nude 18 -foot 6tatue of actor David Niven as it lay on the back of a rented truck parked in front of The Harvard Lampoon. Before long, the 300-pound statue had been removed from the vehicle by a group of joyful Harvard students and erected on the sidewalk in Freedom where passersby could view the private life of David. Niven -for 25 cents. 1 The plaster statue, re-sembling marble, was transported from New York to Boston to promote the new comedy, "The Statue," which opened yesterday at the Savoy.

To the surprise of no one who viewed the statue in Cambridge, the movie is dedicated to "the proposition that all men are not created i equal." In his latest role, Niven travels over most of Europe trying to find the man who humor magazine, proudly announces its intention to produce its first full-length feature film," the statement read. As the number of curious grew around the statue, Miss Badgers became happier. She decided to telephone the movie releasing company in New York City to tell them how the promotion was going. "Hi, Irving," she said to the telephone in the Lampoon ofice. "This is Jane.

The statue is up and they're charging 25 cents to see it. Suddenly her voice changed. "You don't want it back in New York? Ever?" When she hung up, she turned to the group of students and announced that it appeared that The Lampoon had won itself an 18-foot statue. And the men of the Lampoon began to woner what they would do with it when the novelty wore off. It could be left on the sidewalk, one explained, or cut in half, hauled inside and put together again sans tablecloth of course.

Charlestown man killed A 39 year-old Charlestown man was found shot to death last night, a short distance from his home, police said. Doctors at Mass. General Hospital said Joseph Brazil of 129 Walford way died from gunshot wounds of the head. Brazil was captured in 1960 after he allegedly robbed a Medford bank with several other men. He was later found guilty in Middlesex Superior Court on a bank robbery charge.

Police, Hub educators meet u. iv Boston school officials met with police yesterday to discuss the placement of officers in troubled high schools when classes resume next week. At the same time, black students who boycotted the schools last week received the support of the Roxbury Multi-Service Center. A strike information center was set up in the center office at 317 Blue Hill av. Although some patrolmen reportedly are unhappy about being assigned to Boston schools, an agreement was reached yesterday to use them both inside and outside schools when headmasters and district captains decide they are needed.

GE buys Lynn naval plant General Electric has paid $6,450,000 to the General Services Administration for the Naval Industrial Reserve Gear Plant in Lynn. The facility, acquired by the government in 1941 and operated by GE during World War II, consists of 77.5 acres of land, 36 buildings and numerous pieces of machinery. Health officials hit 'polities' Two career state administrators in the Public Health Department supported protective legislation yesterday which would prevent their powers from being removed by any governmental reorganization plan. George Michael, director of the Division of Food and Drugs, and Dr. Nicholas J.

Fiumara, director of the Division of Communicable Diseases, told the state administration committee they simply wanted to protect the organizational structure of the DPH from falling under political control. Decorated veteran sours on politicians Framingham tax order lifted Middlesex Superior Court Judge Frank Tomasello rescinded restraining orders against the Framingham assessors and town tax collector yesterday. The restraints were issued last week when taxpayers of two residential areas brought suit, charging excessive assessments on their property. Shotgun incidents in Canton State police detectives are investigating a series of shotgun blasts early yesterday. The front door of the home of Selectman Richard Murphy was riddled with holes, two plate glass windows were shattered at the Engineering Systems Co.

on Turnpike street, and Ann's Lunch, operated by Selectman Harold Fitzgerald, was damaged. Authorities said they could not determine a motive for the shootings. Building search cost $125,000 The search for the bodies of four men killed Jan. 25 when a Brighton apartment building collapsed cost about Boston's building commissioner said yesterday. posed nude for his sculp-, tress wife, Virna Lisi.who was commissioned to create a statue of her husband for display in front of the US Embassy in London's Grosvenor Square.

Niven suspects that his wife either exaggerated one part of his physique or modeled a focal point of the statue after a secret lover so he embarks on a tour of locker rooms, baths and bedrooms, searching for whatever inspired his wife. The men of the Lampoon were inclined to display Niven's statue in the raw but soon realized that if they were to attract newspaper and television photographers they would have to drape a vital part of it. James H. Siegelman Harvard sophomore and Lampoon president, tried to cover the lower part of the statue with two Harvard scarfs crimson and white and each six feet long. They went around Mr.

Niven's rump but they were worthwhile," he said. His emphasis of the past tertse explains his sour feelings. "It's difficult to fight a restricted war," he explained. "I'm down on politicians, really. We've got our hands tied.

We could have been out in '65 if the efforts we put forth were in the right direction." Farnham, 29, who has been in the Army 13 years, feels a victory was possible when the US began sending large numbers of troops to Vietnam if restrictions had not been imposed. He points out that the enemy was not functioning within limits. "We had an opportunity to more or less liberate the country," he said. The He said "the drug prob lem is not just a problem of illegal drugs when you learn that 13 billion doses of amphetamines were manufactured for prescription use in the US last year." Under present law, illegal possession of amphetamines and barbiturates is regarded as a misdemeanor. Possession of marijuana is regarded as a felony punishable with sentences of up to three and a half years in prison.

1 The chief hypocrisy in the present state laws, says Backman, is that they only punish the poor. were not wide enough to block the view from Bow and Mt. Auburn streets as the morning rush began. Someone tried a sheet but it was soiled and added nothing to the scene. Then the dozen or so students decided to wrap Mr.

Niven in a triangular loin cloth fashioned from one of the Lampoon's tablecloths. Siegelman's two scarfs, tied together, were draped from each hand to cover the backside. The first curious passerby to peek under the tablecloth was a husky campus policeman who merely shook his head. He didn't drop a quarter into the tin box which the Lampoon said would be used to raise money to fight mercury pollution. The idea of displaying the statue in front of the Lampoon was that of Jane Badgers, who handles publicity for Ben Sack in Boston.

The statue had been used for promotion in New, York. "I asked the Lampoon fellows if they wanted an 18 foot statue and they said MAJ. FARNHAM actions in Laos and Cambodia should-have been taken five years ago, he feels. "There's an old adage about closing the doors when the horse is out to pasture," he said. Farnham would not return to Vietnam under the present situation.

"I wouldn't be opposed 'If you are middle class, suburban, and white, and can pay at least $500 for a lawyer, you can get a slap on the wrist and go home for the same offense which sends a poor man to jail," he said. At the same conference, Assistant Atty. Gen. Robert Murray outlined the philosophy behind the attorney general's "drug package" legislation which would give the court more discretion in drug cases. The proposals, essentially the same bills which the Legislature killed last year, would: they knew what to do with it," Miss Badgers explained, shortly after she and a group of students made their dawn appearance traveling the wrong way on Bow st.

Behind two automobiles came the red rented truck which an Avis employee, Jimmie Smart of Brooklyn, had driven over the Massachusetts Turnpike in the early morning hours. He said Niven's undraped form attracted quite a few curious stares along the pike. In his haste to get rid of the statue, Jimmie backed the truck into a tree in front of the Lampoon Castle and he and a few of the boys nearly tipped Mr. Niven over as they removed him from the back of the truck. A velvet rope and four metal stands were placed around the statue, after it was erected on the sidewalk.

A work table was set up as an information center and the Lampoon handed out a press release. "With this exhibition, The Harvard Lampoon, the nation's oldest college to going to Laos or Cambodia, though," he said. "It's different. Right now the people and the politicians don't know about the situation there." He thinks public opinion about the war was molded by the media concentrating on a My Lai and ignoring US errands of mercy or enemy atrocities. "The public condemns many for the actions of a few," he said.

VI never once heard of anybody telling about a Special Forces camp overrun with everybody assassinated or slaughtered. But let one American soldier do what he thinks is right. Maybe it's right or wrong. That's exploited." He feels that the American public was apathetic toward this war as opposed Equate the penalties for illegal possession of harmful and narcotic drugs, thus increasing penalties for abuses involving amphetamines or barbiturates. Repeal the crime of "being present" where marijuana is sold, which now carries a more severe penalty than "possession." Leave the crime of "conspiracy" on the books, so a case could be prosecuted there were evidence that a person present where marijuana was found was involved in packaging it ip sale.

By Bob Sales Globe Staff WILMINGTON Maj. Donald W. Farnham returned home last night with his wife, three sons, nine pieces of luggage and a chestful of medals. He won the medals during four tours 47 months in Vietnam and is one of (Photo, Page 1 this country's most decorated soldiers. Each medal he wears is matched by a sour feeling about the country's failure to support military efforts there.

"I feel that Vietnam as a country, and the efforts we WERE putting forth there, At least until summer A1BTA defers cuts in service to World War II because this country is not threatened directly. He thinks this is a miscalculation on the public's part. Given his way now, he said, "I would ask for the support of the American people. "I would ask that the military be allowed to run its own corporation, I feel a military force working toward world peace cannot be successful when a certain segment of the government and the population is against any and all Farnham, who was here at Christmastime for the first time in many years, is now a professor of military science at the Miami (Fla.) Military Academy. He will be honored at a dinner tomorrow night.

Give the courts discretion in allowing possession or conspiracy charges to be treated as either a misdemeanor, a felony or dismissed. Backman took sharp issue with the attorney general's bills. "Conspiracy is a prosecutor's bill," he said. "If you want to get rid of the crime of 'being get fid of it. Just changing 'possession' to leaving the matter up to the discretion of the courts continues the same old cycle.

The courts already have discretion and kids are bein busted left and right." State senator sees end to 'hypocrisy' in drug laws were sympathetic in principle, they objected loudly to almost all the reductions that affected their own communities. The reductions were to have taken effect with the start of the spring timetable on March 20. Under union agreements the new schedule was to have been made available weeks in advance, so that drivers could select their runs under the seniority system. Sen. Kenneally said the MBTA men, including general manager Joseph C.

Kelly, agreed to maintain present timetables until June 20 when the summer timetables take effect. Kenneally said that during the closed-door meeting the committee members told of severe "ilak" they had been getting about the service cut proposal. Kenneally said he thinks the only-solution to the burden on property tax payers is statewide assumption of the deficit costs. Kenneally, who also heads the master tax plan cormnission, said recommendations on the MBTA's fiscal problems will come from the commission) before the By A. S.

Plotkin Globe Staff Under mounting pressure from the Legislature, the MBTA agreed last night to defer for at least three months its proposed sharp reductions in bus service. The announcement came from Sen. George V. Kenneally Jr. (D-Dorchester), chairman of the joint Committee on Transportation, after a 2 -hour meeting of the committee with top brass of the MBTA.

Hundreds of citizens had complained to municipal officials throughout the transit district, as well as to the MBTA and the legislators. The Authority, facing a deficit of more than $60 million in 1S71, had been asked by the advisory board in December to cut its budget by several million dollars. MBTA officials looked toward big savings by eliminating dozens of bus runs and curtailing off-peak service on others. They set as a possible goal 20 percent of the 200 present runs, but privately acknowledged this to be politically impossible. Teams of Authority men visited many of the cities and towns in the district.

And while most of tlaenunicipal officials By Jean Dietz Globe Staff The Massachusetts legislature will consider 70 proposals on drug use and abuse this year and Sen. Jack Backman (D-Brook-line), chairman of the Joint Committee on Social Welfare predicts an end to some of the "hypocrisy" in disposition of drug cases. "Youngsters are now going to jail for using the same drugs prescribed by doctors for their parents," Backman yesterday told a meeting on the bills at the State House sponsored by United Community Services and other agencies. year end. a.