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A conference was held in November 1965 in the USSR Academy of Sciences' Institutute of State and Law; the participants included scientific personnel of law, economics, and agricultural institutes, faculty members of law, economics, and agricultural higher educational institutions, personnel of the ministries of agriculture of the USSR and the RSFSR, the Moscow Regional Agricultural Administration, the USSR Procuracy and the RSFSR Procuracy, and representatives of certain publishing houses and newspaper and journal editorial boards. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on the journal "Social Science Quarterly." The journal is receiving more new subscriptions and more manuscripts from outside of their region. But, more important, the manuscripts received from scholars within their region are noticeably better. In fact, 30 of the 72 manuscripts published in Volume 49 were from southwestern colleges and universities, in spite of increasing competition from outside of the region orientation. The journal will continue to welcome good political science, sociology, economics, history and business manuscripts but preference will be clearly for the manuscript which transcends a disciplinary label. The increase in the number of manuscripts submitted, coupled with a policy of having manuscripts in more than one discipline, has meant a corresponding increase in the time and effort volunteered by associate and advisory editors as well as by occasional readers. In addition to the 42-member editorial boards in 1968 the journal had assistance in evaluating manuscripts from an additional 164 social scientists.