Operation Match, the "computer dating service" which a good deal of humorous interest at Harvard last Spring, is falling into a financial hole.

Although the last questionnaires won't be returned until the of this week, Match may find itself several thousands of in debt. It needs about 13,500 responses, at $3 apiece, to even, and last evening it had no more than 12,000. The dead- for the last questionnaires, those from Boston, is midnight .

The summer program, an expanded version of the spring's England operation, covered ten cities in the United States, with success in some and not-so-mild failure in others. Residents San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York seemed to let a computer guide their love lives, but the response was not up to program predictions. And students at the University at Bloomington, set back only 137 applications.

national return was about 6 of the questionnaires and this return would adequately covered Match's expense of $35,000. But estimate proved far too low, to Drug Ginaberg, the nation's treasurer, who placed now at $40,000.

nation-wide distribution the increase in expenses, explained. Even the first which covered only in New England, barely even, clearing about $100. 8,000 replies, it grossed just enough to cover time, card-punching, and which came to over printing, distribution, and , totaling $7,000, and expenses" of over $9,000. denied reports that the operation had netted $8,000.