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2 Boston Evening Globe Friday, Nov. 5, 1976 i -NEWS-DIGEST At 63, he's Harvard's oldest freshman Continued from Page 1 A REQUEST by black parents for establishment of an independent department of implementation to make sure that Boston school desegregation orders of US District Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr. are carried out was taken under advisement by Garrity yesterday. MOST STATE AGENCIES and secretariats, un- der threat of a hiring freeze, have begun drafting "af time his daughter was graduating from the University of Pennsylvania.

"I thought now that I've finished paying their tuitions why don't I go to college myself. My son's experience at Harvard prompted me to apply there." The Harvard admissions committee said it was "worried" about his age, he said. When they accepted him they gave him a year's leeway to take care of his personal affairs, getting rid of his Westchester County house and so forth. He was not obliged to take the college admissions exams. He was also exempted from the obligatory Harvard freshman expository writing course, largely on the strength of having written 10 books, he said.

Gersh graduated from high school in 1930. The last exam he took was in the service in 1942. He now studies the traditional required courses in the sciences, humanities and language, and plans to major in history. "Harvard's giving me no special deal, which is what I expected," he said. "And now that the chaos and confusion are over, it's a lot easier.

I just got an A on a paper on Benjamin Franklin. Still, there seems to be no end to the assignments they give you here." When he applied to Harvard at age 61, the reactions of his friends were widely divided, said Gersh. "Academics warned I'd never get through it, others said it was silly, and some thought it was a good idea. My family thought it was tremendous." By Bill Fripp Globe Staff Fathers have long kept an eye on their sons at Harvard, but now there's a reversal in that tradition with John Gersh, Class of '68, carefully watching his father Harry Gersh, Class of '80. The elder Gersh, at age 63, is the oldest freshman ever to attend Harvard.

Gersh, whose gray beard and hair is in sharp contrast to his pink-cheeked classmates, said yesterday that the first six weeks of his term had been "very confusing." "It's hard to be judged by examinations and papers and to assume a completely new life style," said Gersh, who was a career journalist and internal house organ editor for a New York actuary firm before he retired last March. He and Mrs. Gersh split their time between an apartment near the Radcliffe campus and a house on Martha's Vineyard. In his initial classes, classmates and professors pretty much ignored him. "They thought I was a graduate student, or else the students were wrapped up in their own worlds," he said.

Then the Harvard Crimson broke the story on Thursday. "Students came up," he said, "and asked me if I really were a student and what the experience was like. The professors took it in stride." He began thinking of entering Harvard about three years ago, he said, shortly after his son graduated from Harvard and at the -V 1 ft ts6 i- rPZLw Lee JF iitTiiff Harry Gersh, 63, a Harvard freshman, studies hard. (AP photo) firmative action" plans for minority hiring in accordance with an executive order of 18 months ago. Affirmative Action Director Charles A.

Dotten says 30 agencies have submitted plans. THE HOUSING COMMITTEE of the Boston City Council is asking for "sweeping reform" of Boston Housing Authority administrative procedures and more equitable distribution of rent increases due to be levied against some 50,000 BHA tenants on Dec. 1. National TELEVISION VIEWERS probably won't see any immediate changes in early-evening programs as a result of a court decision against the networks' "family hour" viewing policy. The court found the networks violated constitutional rights of free speech in adopting the policy.

AMERICAN MOTORISTS are setting records in gasoline consumption despite continuing warnings of dwindling energy resources. The Federal Highway. Administration estimates gas consumption this year will total 118.8 billion gallons, far above the former' high set in 1973. CALIFORNIA had the biggest turnout for swine flu shots of any state in the first month of the program, and Alaska had the highest rate of participation. But officials are worried about the large percentage of blacks and poor people who are not taking part in the program.

World PALESTINIAN LEADERS in Lebanon today rejected the appointment by President Elias Sarkis of a moderate Lebanese Moslem to head the Arab League peacekeeping force. Meanwhile fighting continued and at least 41 persons were killed in Beirut. DEPUTY PREMIER Takeo Fukuda of Japan resigned today in a move expected to intensify a drive within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to oust Prime Minister Takeo Miki. Japan's first parliamentary election since the Lockheed payoff scandal broke will be held Dec. 5.

A GOVERNMENT BILL postponing national elections for the second straight year was passed by the lower house of India's parliament today. An opposition leader said it was "the beginning of the end" for voting rights, but the government denied this. WESTERN NATIONS at a UNESCO conference in Kenya today denounced a proposed resolution saying states are responsible for the international activities of media under their jurisdiction. They called it an attempt to impose state control over information. NAMES AND FACES Globe Wire Services Susan Ford had all four wisdom teeth extracted yesterday.

Susan, 19, disappointed over her father's defeat, apparently decided to get all her misery over with at the same time. The decision resulted in a brief postponement of her parents' vacation trip to Palm Springs, Calif. The President and Mrs. Ford had been scheduled to leave today or tomorrow, but decided to stay in Washington until Sunday. President Ford has accepted the resignation of Richard C.

Helms as ambassador to Iran. In a letter dated Oct. 9, the former CIA director told the President he was resigning but would prefer to remain on duty in Teheran until the period between Christmas and New Year's. In accepting Helms's resignation after his 34 years in government service, Ford said, "You carried out your duties with dedication and skill," and praised the "many insights" Helms provided in his diplomatic work. Jack Ford says he expects his father to be more active than most former Presidents when the family leaves the White House.

"For the better part of the first year, they'll devote the time to doing all the things they wanted to do before but never had the time for. Dad will enjoy traveling to places like Mexico where he always wanted to go with mother, as tourists," Jack told the New York Daily News. Young Ford also said that his father might be interested in teaching and writing his memoirs. "He'd like to teach at a university if it could be on the basis of about one month a year," Ford While a co-worker holds their lunch pails, two men on way to work in LaPorte, aid motorist stuck in 11-inch snowfall. (UPI photo) Miscellany (' 't Kelly Buckley, 20, a first-time voter in Bountiful, Utah, had little difficulty recognizing the names on the ballot George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Babe New York City police union delegates have again rejected a proposed contract and threaten a traffic ticket "blitz" unless their demands are met American Motors Corp.

and an AMC supervisor were found in contempt of court and fined $100 each for threatening to fire a worker if he didn't come back from jury duty A ban on catching yellowfin tuna for the rest of the year, imposed to save went into effect today A US government panel is heading for Europe to monitor and evaluate the workings of the 1975 Helsinki accords A new contract could be completed this week to end the United Auto Workers strike against Deere Co. that has idled 27,000 workers in six states China plans a state trial of Mao Tse-tung's widow and three other accused plotters Wholesale prices rose sharply in October for the second straight month, the Labor Department reports. SEYMOUR R. LINSCOTT added. Thomas Hoving, director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has announced his retirement effective Dec.

31, 1977. "I love this place, I cherish it, but I have from the start expressed firm views about how long an individual should remain as chief executive of any complex institution," Hoving said in a statement yesterday. He has been director of "the Met" since April 1967. Julia Quinlan, who pleaded with the courts to "pull the plug" on the respirator of her daughter Karen Anne so she could die with dignity, has been inducted into an or- ganization that gives psychological counseling to people dying of cancer. She recently earned a certificate as a member of the newly established Riverside Hospice Volunteer Corps, which includes doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers, clergy and people like Mrs.

Quinlan with useful personal experience. She will help instruct patients and their families to lead as normal a life as possible and to accept dying as part of the life cycle. Ruth, Dolly Madison and Mona Lisa. Miss Buckley saw the names in a ballot book which had accompanied a spare voting machine wheeled in to replace one that had chewed up a ballot Tuesday night. "There were names like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Babe Ruth," she recalled yesterday at the state Capitol where she works as a receptionist.

"I thought, 'Maybe this is leading up to so I flipped the page. I found some more odd choices Dolly Madison and Mona Lisa. I went through the whole thing and finally decided there was no way this could mean anything. I hated to look dumb, but I figured I'd better ask one of the judges." She did and found she had the sample ballot supplied by the voting machine firm to demonstrate how the device works. The judges quickly gave her a Utah ballot and she was faced with a more contemporary choice: Gerald Ford or Jimmy Carter.

SUSAN FORD The Loch Ness monster, the mysterious creature said to inhabit Scotland's Loch Ness, is now official. She or he, known familiarly as Nessie, has made it the new updated edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Joining Nessie in the new diction-, ary are the words "mugging," and "hobbit," created by author John Tolkien. How does Oxford define a hobbit? "One of an imaginary people, a small variety of the human race that gave themselves this name (meaning hole-dweller) but were called by others halflings since they were half the height of normal men." THE" EAR Peter Maas, author of "King of the Gypsies," and his publisher have been sued for $3.5 million in libel damages in a Federal district court in Brownsville, Tex. Maas and Bantam Books, were sued for references to a Brownsville-based gypsy family.

Plaintiffs in the suit are Mike Adams of Brownsville, Boto Adams of Harlington, Louis Adams of Atlanta and Dewey Adams of El Paso, plus the sons, daughters and nephews of the four men. The suit seeks $2 million in damages from Bantam Books for a statement on the cover of the book which compares the gypsy family to the Mafia. The remaining $1.5 million in damages is being asked of Maas for a passage in the book which criticizes the national Gypsy Crime Investigators, Inc. formed by Mike, Louis and Boto Adams in 1970. Mrs.

Nilda Frulio of Toms River, N.J., says peanut seeds she received as a gift the day Jimmy Carter was nominated for President bloomed on the day Carter won election to the White House.Frulio, chairman of the Berkeley Township Democratic Committee, yesterday proudly the peanut blossom to coworkers at' the Ocean County Courthouse. Frulio said the plant was given to her by her boss, Freeholder Robert Gasser, when Carter won the Democratic Party's nomination in July. She said the plant first bloomed early Wednesday when Carter's victory was confirmed. i President-electJimmy Carter says his 9-year-old daughter, Amy, will attend a public school when the family moves to Washington in January. Carter told reporters yesterday that Amy will enter the fourth grade in a public school near the White House.

The elementary school nearest the White House is Stevens School, more than 100 years old and originally an all-black school when Washington's schools were segregated. By Diana McLellan Louise Lague Washington Star G-STRING GIRLS GO GUVVIE Meanwhile, over at the Plaza Burlesque Theater at 14th and New York, politically-conscious strippers Angie-Baby and Tasha took up the fight. All day Tuesday they paraded onstage with a "Vote Ford" sign, then tossed their delicate little undies over it, to "stimulate people to vote." The customers adored the whole thing, but the manager wanted to put a stop to it because, Ear hears, "he's a bit of a fuddy-duddy." IN SWINGLESVILLE It's dreadfully hard being Cosmo magazine's Bachelor of the Month, Earwigs. Poor Mike O'Harro was warned that fun-seekers galore probably would get on the horm to him when they saw his Divine and Rich-looking pie in the new issue's pages, pestering him for dates. "Be a Good Guy," Mike was instructed.

It seems some of those naughty Bachelors of the Month are called by girls, take them out on the town, get Far More than a Goodnight Kiss, and never call their dates back. Golly, it's rough out there. WALK SOFTLY AND CARRY A LIVE MIKE -With all these secret goings-on at CBS, Ear wonders whether it's news that Eric Sevareid has taken to wearing Hugh-Puppies. Le tout plastic surgeon establishment is noticing how perky Bob Dole's looking about his once-baggy eyes That hip, black, local, (Howard U-born) rock group Donald Byrd and the Blackbirds, plays all over the country now. It's so fancy these days that it rents the Ken Cen for rehearsals.

So much more, and so much juicier, later. WELL IT'S A BIG PROBLEM Henry the (the secretary, not the horse) was having a high old time palling around with a few reporters after a television Interview the other day when one of them asked him how and where was his new house. Hen said It was jim-dandy and somewhere on but he never had learned the house number. Nan picked it out and Hen just gets out of the limo wherever it stops, then the Secret Service men take him from there. And when he walks Tvlpr.

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Ear never thought of that. AMY CARTER.