Parkinson, Skinner To Lecture Today

C. Northcote Parkinson, Raffles Professor of History at the University of Malaya and author of the satiric Parkinson's Law, will speak this afternoon at 3 p.m. in Burr B (not in Lamont Forum Room as previously announced). His topic: "Parkinson's Law."

Later today, Cornelia Otis Skinner will make her only Boston appearance of the year when she appears at M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium at 8:30 p.m. with a series of character sketches.

Miss Skinner's program will include "Geneolgy," a portrait of a "blue-blooded Bostonian," and four other sketches, ranging from a mother and her son to a satire on American tourists in Paris.