He's Harvard's top administrator, but evidently that doesn't count for too much when they start handing out the bucks at Harvard. For the second consecutive year, President Bok missed out on the top five in Harvard salaries; earning $89.541. Bok misses the cut by nearly $5000, according to recently released public documents. Instead, Medical School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson '44 again snagged the top salary--$120,200, up $11,000 from the year before. Following Tosteson came Dr. John R. Brooks, director of surgery at the University Health Services ($114,426); out-going Dean of the Faculty Henry Rosovsky ($97,000); Dr. Philip Leder '56. Andrus Professor of Genetics ($95,000); and Dr. Howard Green. Higgins Professor of Physiology ($94,500). But Bok doesn't fare too badly; in addition to his salary, he gets to live rent-free in the official President's residence at 33 Elmwood Ave.

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On the subject of president...Bok says there is nothing to the rumors heard around campus recently that he may throw his hat into the ring and run for the Senate. He does admit he has had some friendly proddings to run for the seat being vacated by Paul E. Tsongas--but nothing really serious. The people suggesting that he run "don't know too much about politics," the prexy laughs.

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Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61 may be the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, but he still has to pay taxes. And the IRS may be doing a little bit of extra snooping down at the Old Executive Office Building in Washington once they get a load of the Guilford Town Report.

The report lists delinquent property taxpayers including... the family of Feldstein. Town Clerk Sally L. Carpenter says the Feldsteins missed the November 10 deadline on the $2545.86 bill they owed. Carpenter says that since then the entire bill has been payed--except for $29 that resulted from a mailing confusion. "I've been sending the bills to his house in Cambridge, and I think they took a long time to get to him," she adds.

The Feldsteins' residence is in Guilford, a town of about 1500 people. "They've lived here for about three or four years. They are lovely people and it is not as if he was purposely not paying," says Carpenter.

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A small pocket of discontent has emerged against the Administrative Board's recent decision to require tutors who write recommendations for students to mention any disciplinary action taken against the students.

North House tutors are reported to be among the leading opponents of the new policy, although officials there say they are not considering any form of civil disobedience. Secretary of the Ad Board John R. Marquand reportedly telephoned North House Senior Tutor Margot N. Gill recently to make sure the new directive was fully understood at the College's smallest house.

Previously, mention of a student's disciplinary record was left to the discretion of the letter-writer.

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Computer hijinks at the Big H... Many of the several hundred students who have signed onto the order list for the new Apple Macintosh personal computer may mistakenly believe they are in line to receive the computer. An official with Harvard's Equipment Management store says these students were only signing up to get information about where to buy the Apple once they come in.

In January, Apple announced that it would provide Harvard and 23 other universities with the newest p.c.'s at reduced prices to be re-sold at reduced prices. Although a specific price has not yet been set, administrators agree it will be approximately $1200...

In a related development, Paul C. Martin '51, dean of the Division of Applied Science, says the appointment of a "dean of computers" to oversee Harvard's computerization efforts has been put off until A Michael Spence takes over as the new dean of the Faculty. After interviewing one group of candidates, the Faculty decided to reevaluate the definition of the job, he says.

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Harvard resident armchair nuke expert Paul M. Doty left this week to talk with other nuke experts at a conference on arms control in the Soviet Union. Doty, a biochemist, is a member of a special task force of both U.S. and Soviet specialists who have been meeting under the sponsorship of the Kettering Foundation of Ohio.

Doty, director of the Center for Science and International Affairs, was one of the co-authors of the book, Living with Nuclear Weapons.

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The dice came up snake eyes for the five following Harvard professors, all recently named by Bok to chair their respective departments for a period of three years effective July 1. Department chairman is a time-consuming administrative task at Harvard that rotates among department members. The unlucky five this time around are: Assistant Professor Gary A. Tubb (the incumbent in Sanskrit and Indian Studies); Professor Warren D. Goldfarb (Philosophy); Professor of Arabic Wolfhart P. Heinrichs (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations); Professor Stanley J. Tambiah (Anthropology); and Professor Sheldon H. White (Psychology and Social Relations).

Also appointed: to a four-year term in the Fine Arts Department, Professor Neil A. Levine; and to an open-ended term heading the Celtic Languages and Literatures Department, Professor Sean O. Coileain.

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A recent call to Boston City Hall revealed a level of "hands-on" leadership rarely exhibited in municipal governments.

When Crimson reporter Sonya C. Laurence dialed Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn's director of Constituent Affairs, Carmen A. Pola, she was more than a little surprised to have her call answered not by Pola, but by Mayor Flynn himself. Flynn was quite helpful, according to Laurence, and he even agreed to leave a message for the busy and unreachable bureaucrat.

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This is a hot week on the Harvard Lecture circuit--that is if you're interested in nuclear weapons, immigration or the Caribbean. Heading the ticket at the Forum at the Institute of Politics is Notre Dame President and general academic big-wig the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, speaking on "Science, Religion, and the Nuclear Menace" also at the K-School tonight in an adjoining room is Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), one of the chief proponents of immigration reform in recent years, speaking on, you guessed it. "The Politics of Immigration Reform"....another big-shot coming to Harvard this week is Jamaica's Prime Minister and free-market fan Edward Seaga. He speaks tonight at the Law School and tomorrow at the Center for International Affairs....or, tap for the weekend is a big, two-day conference on women's history at Radcliffe's Schlesinger Library that was Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities Robert M. Coles '50 who dropped, by the University of Massachusetts at Boston last month to deliver a speech at a celebration of the statefunded university's 20th anniversary. Coles urged colleagues and students in the mental health disciplines to get back in touch with the simple truths of human behavior and rely less on book theory. Harvard Treasurer George Putnam '49 is currently on vacation in India.