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Highlights the Third European Weed Research Council Symposium on New Herbicides held in 1969 in Paris, France. Papers on herbicides submitted at the symposium.

Presents an overview of the International Study Meeting on Selective Weed Control in Sugar Beet Crops in Paris, France on March 9 to 10, 1967. Information on commercial and state-sponsored organizations that participated in the meeting; Factors which influence the efficiency of herbicides; Overview of discussion papers presented during the meeting.

Focuses on the topics discussed during the Second Symposium on New Herbicides held in the Maison de la Chimie in Paris, France, on November 30 and December 1, 1965. Properties of the phenylureides of benzoic acid; Killer of germinating grass weeds; Developments in the dinitrophenol group of herbicides.

The article reports on the 13th Seminar on Family Research and its focus on the family life cycle as a social system. The conference, organized by the International Sociological Association's Committee on Family Research and the Centre d'Ethnologie Francaise, was held in Paris, France in September 1973. Four themes prevailed: changes in family cycle in Europe since the 18th century, social stratification and urban-rural differences, family life cycle theory, and research methods in social science.

The article provides information about the International Institute for Economic Planning in Paris, France. The institute, which was established in 1963, was a semi-autonomous body under the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It was funded by Unesco, the World Bank, and the Ford Foundation. The board was internationally composed and includes six elected members and five statutory members' representing organizations in the United Nations system with major responsibilities for education, human resources and development. The primary objective of the institute is to promote instruction and research on educational planning economic and social development.

The article focuses on the merchant guilds in Paris, France in the 16th century. Guild history has never been a favorite subject of French historians. For the Middle Ages, there has been a good deal of interest in, and controversy over, the origins of guilds. And an abundance of readily available documentary material for the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has permitted students of this period to make up in the quantity of the information they presented for what their work lacked in quality. But for the period between the early Middle Ages and the seventeenth century one cannot say even this. Historians have tended either to lump together the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries or, if they did deal with the sixteenth century by itself, to generalize so airily about the attributes of different guilds that it was impossible to conclude anything useful about any of them. This study of the grocers of sixteenth-century Paris was undertaken in the belief that meaningful guild history must begin with the analysis in depth of individual guilds at one time and in one place.

During the course of a meeting held in Paris on December 16, 1963, the Board of Directors of the International Union of Family Organization (IUFO) decided to constitute a Scientific Commission for the study of the family. The proposal was made by the President of the IUFO and most enthusiastically supported by all members of the Board. What are the goals of this new commission? What functions is it going to perform? What specific role is it going to play inside the UIFO and among the many institutions, organizations, and movements which are concerned with a better knowledge of the family and a sound development of family life? The future will tell us better than anything we could affirm at this time. However it may be useful to consider some of the facts which are giving meaning to this initiative and which are giving meaning to this initiative and which could favor the success of the Commission. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the first meeting of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Panel of Consultants held in Paris, France in October 1965, related to the role of science and technology in economic development. The purpose of this panel is to assist the UNESCO Secretariat and especially the Economic Analysis Office of the Department of Social Sciences and the Science Policy Division of the Science Sector, in carrying out programs of direct concern to UNESCO. More particularly, these are programs relating to the methodology of the economics of science and technology, as well as the economic problems of science, such as the economic return from research, the planning of scientific development in connection with the planning of the national economy and the determination of requirements in scientific personnel. Another responsibility of this panel is to lay down, in co-operation with the Economic Analysis Office, the broad outline of pilot studies in the developing countries, bearing on the integration of science planning into the over-all planning of the national economy and to examine the content of three studies, provided for in another connection, on the economic return from research.

The article presents various news and announcements related to sociology, as of August 1, 1960. The First Congress of Criminal Prophylaxis was held in Paris, France in 1959 with "The Impact of Technical Progress on Criminality," as its central theme. However, by reason of the crisis through which are passing public opinion, the rising generation, and the ethical notions on which public order rests, these discussions at the congress went beyond the criminological and penitentiary context to embrace the problem of the normal human being, whose preservation is a matter of national importance at a time when the advancement of man is so earnestly sought. At the opening meeting of the session, which was presided over by M. Patin, president of the Criminal Chamber of the French Supreme Court of Appeal, and French professors, described the criminogenic factors in the technical mass civilization of the present world.

The article presents information on several international conferences on social sciences, as of February 1, 1960. The third session of the Interim Executive Committee of the International Social Science Council was held in Paris, France, on October 10, 1959. The committee considered various budgetary matters. It confirmed the forthcoming publication of a brochure on the Council's work in its first six years of existence. The sixth annual International Congress of the Institute of Management Sciences was held at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris, France, in September 1959. The main aim of the congress was to encourage a comprehensive approach to management problems, which has become necessary in all businesses now that the large electronic calculators have opened up so many possibilities.