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The article presents titles and abstracts of papers submitted at a meeting held in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1938. The paper "The Sequent Occupance of a Boston Suburban Community," presented by Edward A. Ackerman focuses on areas surrounding the Boston metropolitan district. The proximity of a large city market, plots of level land and fertile soil determine the existence of these suburban fanning communities. The article "The Recession of Victoria Falls," by Wallace W. Atwood. The world famous falls on the Zainbesi have had a strange and remarkable history in recession. The gorge is serpentine with many curious off-shoots, and located on the floor of a broad and much older flat-bottomed valley. Today the water tumbles over a ledge, fully a mile in length, and into a very narrow chasm 350 ft. deep.

The article presents information on the psychology of newspapers along with an exhaustive study of the treatment, which Boston newspapers accorded to revision of the Neutrality Act that gripped the attention of the U.S. in the fall of 1939. This investigation is based upon a complete sample of weekday and Sunday editions of English-language newspapers published in Boston, Massachusetts. The extent to which this simplification of the story took place in the Boston papers was estimated as carefully as possible. The evidence indicates that editors and newswriters attempt to give as comprehensive and adequate a representation of events as they dare; while the readers insist upon selecting, sharpening, and pointing the issue still further to suit their desire for simplification and definiteness. Newspapers must dramatize and select in order to produce in their readers the emotional integration required for a good fight. A newspaper's pattern of influence is built around its editorial policy. Most papers do to a certain extent select news items favoring the editorial policy of the paper, and reject those that are opposed. In summary, the evidence reported in this study is interpreted as supporting five generalizations which are offered here as tentative laws in the new field of the psychology of newspapers: (1) issues are skeletonized; (2) any given newspaper's field of influence is well-patterned; (3) readers are more emotional than editors; (4)public interest as reflected in newspapers is variable in time; (5) public interest rapidly fatigues and presses for an early closure.

The article presents the program of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association to be held from August 26-29, 1968. It will be held in Boston, Massachusetts. The Program Committee, consisting of Chairman Philip M. Hauser, William J. Goode, Robin M. Williams. Jr., O.D. Duncan, and Gerhard E. Lenski is planning sessions on the central theme of "On the Gap Between Sociology and Social Policy". The session topics are as follows: 1) Plenary sessions: Sociology and the Negro Revolt, Sociology and Social Accounting; 2) Thematic Sessions: Conformity and Social Control, Law and the Administration of Criminal Justice, Socialization and Education, Population and Population Control, Sociology and Environmental Planning, The Polity and the Academy, Sociology and Social Development, Sociology and Systems Analysis, Sociology and Socialist Countries, 3) Regular Sessions: The New Sociometrics, Theory Building. In order to broaden member participation in the Annual Meeting, the 1968 Program Committee is planning a limited number of sessions utilizing a Seminar format. Papers contributed by members apart from those scheduled for organized sessions, will be screened and grouped under appropriate subject headings.

The article presents a list of conferences to be held on various topics, from December 27-29, 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts as part of the 76th Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association. A meeting on the theme Principles of Efficiency to be presided over by Paul A. Samuelson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The papers to be discussed are The Measurement of Waste by Arnold Harberger and The Efficient Allocation of Capital by Jack Hershleifer. A meeting on the theme Re-Appraisals in American Economic History to be presided over by Douglass North of the University of Washington. The papers to be discussed are A New Look at Hunter's Hypothesis about the Ante-Bellum Iron Industry by Peter Temin, Ante-Bellum Interregional Trade Reconsidered by Albert Fishlow and Canals and Development -- A Discussion of the Issue by Roger Ransom. A meeting on Comparative Costs and Economic Development to be presided over by C. P.Kindleberger of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The papers to be discussed are The Experience of India by Wilfred Malenbaum, The African Situation by Walter A. Chudson and The Case of Brazil by Werner Baer.

The article offers information on the Third National Meeting of the Operations Research Society of America which was held on Boston, Massachusetts on November 23-24, 1953. The main topic of the meeting focused on operations research in business and industry including inventory control and production scheduling and consumer shopping. One of the research papers discussed in the conference is "The Distribution of Searching Effort," by Bernard O. Koopman.

A conference paper pertaining to the movement of retail trade in metropolitan areas is presented. The author discusses the work of the Boston University Bureau of Business Research in the creation of a retail trade study for the Boston market area. This study is based off of information found in the 1930 Census of Distribution.

A conference paper is presented about the commerce of Boston, Massachusetts during the time leading up to the American Revolution. It discusses the source material provided by the Massachusetts Historical Society. It examines tables of annual average clearances and provides a broad view of the total movement of sea-borne commerce. The paper also analyzes imports, the exportation of enumerated colonial products, and the direct trade between Boston and Great Britain.

The article focuses on formal organization and the Americanization process, with special reference to Greeks of Boston, Massachusetts. It presents the thesis that formal organization is an important instrument in the transformation of peasants into citizens of a modern state. An earlier paper dealt with individual and family choices between possible alternatives in the Americanization process. The author states that the modification of personality structure requires less effort if large groups can be handled at the same time. The totalitarian state proceeds by creating authoritarian structures and by compelling membership in them. Conformity to patterns set at the top is enforced upon lower ranks of members. Democracies, too, make use of hierarchical organizations and bring pressure upon individuals to conform to set behavior patterns, but they do not rely exclusively upon such organizations. To make the thesis more specific, the Americanization process has been characterized by a balance between authoritarian structures to which the newly arrived immigrant and his children must adjust and autonomous structures which he creates and can modify to suit his needs and taste.

This paper reports the findings of a carefully prepared field experiment conducted in the Boston area to test the "two step flow of communication" hypothesis. The results of the experiment, although far from definitive, seem to call for a reappraisal of the hypothesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, Massachusetts on April 16, 1941. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "The Brown Papers: The Record of a Rhode Island Business Family," "Declension in a Bible Commonwealth," and "The Reverend Robert Jenney."

This article presents information about meetings related to management science. The national joint meeting of The Institute of Management Sciences and Operations Research Society of America will be held during 22-24, 1974 in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Sheraton Boston hotel. The deadline for abstracts of contributed papers is October 31, 1973. For those wishing to attend, there will be sessions on the following topics: Long Range Industrial and Economic Planning Under Uncertainty; Operations Research Models in Financial Planning and Nonlinear Programming; Scheduling. The First Annual Systems Engineering Conference will be held at the Statler-Hilton Hotel in New York City during November 28-30, 1973. A Symposium on the Petroleum Geology of the Georgia Costal Plain will be held in Americus, Georgia during February 18-19, 1974. It will be presented by Georgia Southwestern College in cooperation with the Earth and Water Division of the Georgia State Department of Natural Resources. The Association Internationale pour le Calcul Analogique, in cooperation with the International Federation for Information Processing, has organized an International Symposium on "Hybrid Computation in Dynamic Systems Design" which will be held in Rome during November 11-14, 1974.

Whatever the usefulness of a physician attached to a court of justice may be in examining and giving an opinion on individual cases, he has a broader and more difficult task, namely, that of trying to throw some light on problems which may have, at the same time, medical and a legal aspect. The more we dwell on these problems the more we are aware of their difficulties which, however, are, to a great extent, not inherent to the problems themselves, but are due to the way in which they are approached. The main difficulty, I believe, is the lack of mutual understanding between physicians on one hand and, on the other, those who have to deal with the law or the criminals. The aim of this paper is to bring about a mutual understanding on the question of morphinism, which I consider as medico-legal and, next to that of insanity, the simplest with which we have to deal. I hope that what 1 have to say will arouse sufficient interest to cause its discussion and, above all, that it will be of some practical value.

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston, Massachusetts on April 19, 1933. A list of presiding members is given, mention of the death of former society president Calvin Coolidge is provided, and a list of papers presented at the meeting is included such as "General Washington and the Loyalists," "The Early Circus in America," and "The Narragansett Planters."

The article presents the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Hall of the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston on April 24, 1901. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. A memorial to the late scholar Edward Elbridge Salisbury is discussed. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, along with commentary by members of the Society.

Presents information on the final report of the Committee on the Peirce Homestead presented to the Charles S. Peirce Society during its annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts on December 28, 1972. Resolutions adopted by the committee regarding the homestead of philosopher Charles Peirce in Milford, Pennsylvania; Suggestions concerning the use of arisbe; Recommendations regarding the foundation officers, sources of funds and uses of income.

The article discusses the wealthy men of Boston, Massachusetts, which historians have claimed were largely members of the Whig political party. A study by Frank Otto Gatell of New York City's rich found that nearly 85 percent of those surveyed were members of the Whig party. The paper uses wealthy citizens list that provide the name of affluent Bostonians to recreate Gatell's survey and apply it to Boston in the nineteenth century, thereby testing the validity of the claim that most wealthy Bostonians were Whigs.

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium on chemical and bacteriological warfare of the Society for Social Responsibility in Science held in Boston, Massachusetts is presented. Speakers discuss the effect of the chemical and bacteriological weapons to the public health, which are found to be more humane than the nuclear weapons. The symposium features several scientists like Henry T. Yost, Salvador E. Luria, and J. Huston Westover.

This article focuses on the recent developments in Northeastern University Bureau of Business and Economic Research. Professor Irwin L. Herrnstadt gave a paper dealing with the implication of changing occupational structure for education and social welfare to the Advanced Administrative Institute of the Harvard Graduate School of Education (July 6-17, 1964) and to the Pine Woods Institute for leaders in social welfare planning (July 23-26, 1964).

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, Massachusetts on April 18, 1945. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The presentation of the papers "The Results of Columbus's Discovery," "Casting the National Horoscope," and "Uncensored Letters of Mrs. John Adams," are also mentioned.

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, Massachusetts on April 19, 1944. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "The Nature of American Loyalism" and "American Literature and American Politics."

The article presents the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston, Massachusetts on April 18, 1934. A list of presiding members is included. Elections for society leadership offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are listed, including "The Early Massachusetts Bay Seals," by Matt B. Jones, and "The Beginnings of the Library in Charles Town, South Carolina," by Edgar L. Pennington.

The article discusses the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society, April 18, 1928, held at the House of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston, Massachusetts. The article lists the members present at the meeting, including Reuben Colton, William Eaton Foster, and Julius Herbert Tuttle. People recommended to join the Society are mentioned. Papers that were presented at the meeting are also listed, including one on Puritan politician George Downing and another on Boston bookbinders.

The article presents the proceedings from the April 8, 1925 meeting of the American Antiquarian Society, held at the House of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston, Massachusetts. Lists are provided of attending members, papers presented, and the results of society decisions voted on during the meeting.

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at Ellis Hall of the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston on April 10, 1912. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "Massachusetts Almanacs," by Charles L. Nichols, and "Vitcos, the Last Inca Capital," by Hiram Bingham.

The article offers information on several meetings which were either held or to be held by various institutes and associations related to biological sciences. It states that a NSF Summer Conference on the Mathematics of Biology will be conducted by the Division of Mathematical Biology at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts from June 22 to July 12, 1964, and a Conference on Estuaries will be held at Jekyll Island, Georgia from March 31 to April 4, 1964. It offers information on the Adanson Symposium sponsored by the Hunt Botanical Library of Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from August 18 to 19, 1963. It mentions that the symposium featured several botanists who discussed the contributions of Michel Adanson, an 18th century French naturalist.

Successful membership in the complex organization has become an important economic and social aspect of adult life in Western society. The study examines distribution of services provided by large manufacturing companies in Greater Boston to encourage individual success at work. It analyzes organizational profile data to reveal four types of employing organization in the sample, each employing a different type of population, and supplying a different level of service. Findings show that the level of human support services provided is not related to employee characteristics but is related to certain system variables, suggesting that services occur in response to system characteristics rather than worker needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes methods of teaching sales management at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. A discussion is presented about the types of students entering sales management programs in both traditional college courses and adult evening courses. Details related to the selection of faculty for business courses and the goals of the program. The author stresses the importance of experimentation by both students and faculty in order to train sales managers who keep open minds and are aware of the countless problems in the sales business.

The article discusses the decentralization of retail trade in Boston, Massachusetts. According to the author, during the decade of the 1930s, retail trade in Boston shifted from the metropolitan area to outlying communities. The author notes a number of factors influencing the purchase of shoes in the city. According to the author, women chose certain stores because of better styles, better quality and lower prices, while men chose stores because of quality, style, a larger assortment and based on the store's reliability.

The article investigates why property insurance can be difficult to obtain in urban core areas in the U.S. Federal programs have been instituted to help alleviate the problem, but the causes have attracted little attention from researchers. The author presents an empirical study of fire losses in various neighborhoods of Boston, Massachusetts. Regression analysis on fire-loss and insurance company data identifies price ceilings as the chief cause of insufficient availability of fire insurance. At prevailing prices insurance firms realize losses, and thus stop insuring certain areas.

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, Massachusetts on April 15, 1953. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "Cotton Mather: First Significant Figure in American Medicine," and "Collecting Western Americana."

Information is offered on semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, Massachusetts on April 16, 1952. Topics discussed include the election of members to the society and the presentation of the papers "Lincoln and Prohibition— Blazes on a Zigzag Trail" by Harry Lydenberg and "Early History of the Square-Dance" by S. Foster Damon.

The article presents information on a meeting of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) which was held on April 19, 1950 in Boston, Massachusetts. Nominees for AAS membership Theodore Bolton and Henry Needham Flynt were elected to the society. Papers focusing on the use of coins by the Massachusetts Bay colony and outbreaks of influenza were presented.

The article presents an outline of the proceedings of the semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society held at the Club of Odd Volumes in Boston, Massachusetts on April 15, 1942. A list of presiding members is included. The results of elections for society offices are described. The papers presented at the meeting are also listed, including "Part of an Almanack," "Further Notes on John Watson," and "Edgar Allan Poe's Contributions to Alexander's Weekly Messenger."

The article offers information on a semi-annual meeting of the American Antiquarian Society in Boston, Massachusetts on April 20, 1938. Topics discussed include the election of members, distribution and collection of ballots, and presentation of papers such as "James Wilson of Vermont, America's First Globe Maker" by historian LeRoy E. Kimball.

Focuses on the poem 'A Weather-Vane,' written by poet Sidney Lanier for December 10, 1877 issue of the journal 'The Dial of the Old South Clock.' Aim of the magazine to benefit the Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts; Information on editor and publisher of the paper.

This article presents announcements and news related to various societies and universities in the U.S. as of December 1950. The Edward L. Bernays Foundation RadioTelevision Award, a $1,000 U. S. Government bond, will be presented by the American Sociological Society to the individual or group contributing the best piece of research on the effects of radio and/or television on American society. Presentation of this Award will be made at the annual meeting of the society in 1951. Any individual or group wishing to compete for the Award must submit in duplicate a report on their research on or before June 15, 1951. The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Boston University announces that physician John Koty of Athens, Greece, has been appointed Visiting Professor of Sociology for the academic year 1950-51. Announcement is made concerning fellowships and grants to be offered by the Social Science Research Council during the year 1951. The categories of awards and the applicable regulations will be essentially the same as in 1950. January 15, 1951 will be the closing date for receipt of applications or nominations for all categories of awards to be made in the spring of 1951. This departure from the previous practice of setting different dates for the several categories has been made in order that preliminary interviewing of candidates may be carried out more systematically.

The author defends his economic plan for controlling the price level on standardizing the purchasing power of monetary units titled "The Purchasing Power of Money," presented before the International Congress of Chambers of Commerce on September 1912 in Boston, Massachusetts. The details were also published in the February issue of the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Critics asserts that the author have assumed the truth of the quantity theory of money. The author says that the impression that the plan is dependent on the truth of the quantity theory of money is presumably due to the fact that he have defended that theory in a modified form in his plan. Moreover, there is nothing whatever in the plan itself which could not be accepted by those who reject the quantity theory altogether. On the contrary, the plan will seem simpler, to those who believe a direct relationship exists between the purchasing power of the dollar and the bullion from which it is made without any intermediation of the quantity of money-than it will seem to quantity theorists.

This article talks about business meetings that took place in Boston, Massachusetts, in the period between December 27 to 31, 1912. A meeting of executive committee was held on Friday, December 27, in Copley Plaza. A business meeting of the association was held in Walker Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on Saturday, December 28. A meeting of executive committee was held on February 16, 1912, at the Technology Club, Gramercy Park. Highlights of the meeting are provided in the article along with information on its membership. Issues related to the reduction of expenses were discussed in the meeting. Details of other meetings are also provided in the article.

Abbott Lawrence Rotch was born in Boston, January 6, 1861. He was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (S.B.) in 1884. From 1888 to 1891, and again from 1902 to 1906, he held the appointment of assistant in meteorology at Harvard, a position which involved no teaching and in which no salary was paid. In 1906 he was appointed professor of meteorology, an honor which he prized very highly, and which gave him the position on the teaching staff of the university to which he was in every way fully entitled. He was the first professor of meteorology who has occupied that position at Harvard, and he served in this professorship without pay.

This article highlights the minutes of the annual meeting of the Rural Sociological Society from August 23 to 26, 1968 in Boston Massachusetts.

The article presents the findings of a survey which determines the attitudes of U.S. college professors towards the Vietnam war. Under the survey, professors from seventeen colleges in Boston, Massachusetts were asked to give their opinions on the matter. The data for each professor were collected during an interview, using a structured questionnaire of a 100 items. The interview were carried out during the end of April and the beginning of May 1966. Nearly 80% respondents said that they were highly or very highly interested in the war.

This article presents a case study on changing Mayor election scenario in Boston, Massachusetts. On Tuesday, November 6, 1941, Boston went to the polls to elect a mayor. On Wednesday morning, after the election returns had been duly made official, the Boston Herald had this to say: "Regardless of the outcome, the election was one of the most unsatisfactory in the history of the city. There were too many candidates. The people were so disheartened that many of them decided to register their disgust by staying away from the polls." Elements of confusion which could promote indecision among voters abounded. James Michael Curley was the main candidate and there were five candidates in opposition of Curley. Two of them were main threats, three of them running more for the sake of getting their names before the electorate than for any considered hope of election to office. John Kerrigan, the Acting Mayor of the City of Boston for the year and a half between Maurice Tobin's resignation to assume the Governorship and Election Day, was a young man in his middle thirties. John Reilly, the second major opponent of Curley and also young, was relatively unknown to the city for the dubious distinction of having been the Fire Commissioner of the city at the time of the tragic Coconut Grove disaster. With such a field of candidates, it was obviously impossible for a solid anti-Curley vote to develop. Still another consequence of the confused opposition to Curley was reflected in the behavior of the Boston press. The nature of the campaign itself reflected the plight of the opposition candidates. Curley's opponents seemed unable to decide how to conduct their campaigns.

In Boston, Massachusetts, a polling study of a group of typical marginal Americans furnishes a clue to the motivation and behavior of the average shortwave listener. This project is one of a series of shortwave listening studies carried out by the Princeton Listening Center during the spring and summer of 1941. The chief function of this preliminary polling study was to ascertain how much and what kind of radio listening went on in the North End, both shortwave and standard-wave and to determine superficially what sort of person listened to what sorts of programs. The relative proportion of sexes in the shortwave audience tells nothing very significant. Nor does listening to shortwave seem to any great extent to be a function of age. Of first importance among the correlates of shortwave listening is a complex of factors described by the term militant Italianism. The militant Italian in the North End is the one who objects most strongly and vocally to job discrimination against his nationality group.

This article presents information on a study that examined ethnic identities in the academic community of Boston, Massachusetts, as well as their reaction to the Six Day War. The study collected data from sixty-three Jewish social scientists of the Boston academic community. Study participants came from the social science departments at Harvard, Brandeis, and Boston Universities. In order to identify apathetics, the study used three additional indicators of minimal emotional and participatory involvement in ethnic matters. Some respondents indicated that they were surprised at the extent of their involvement with Israel during the war. On the other hand, apathetics were less involved than sympathetics or others, although they were not thoroughly detached.

This article presents information on the competition prevalent in Boston regarding the supply of gas. First, however, some further reference should be made to the contracts for the public lighting. The much- vaunted contract of February, 1893, with the Brookline Company, had fixed a price of seventy cents for public lighting in Boston and it goes almost without saying that, after this contract, the other companies had to reduce their charges for public lighting. They made new contracts with the city on August 17, 1893, at prices much lower than they had charged before, but in no case so low as those of the Brookline Company. These contracts with the other companies differed from that with the Brookline Company in providing for coal gas of not less than 18 candle power instead of water gas of 25 candle power. During all these years the prices of gas securities were based on rumors and counter-rumors of deals, combinations, compromises, litigations, and threatened receiverships. It was plain almost from the beginning that, if the struggle were to be carried to the point of actual bankruptcy, the Brookline Company, both because of its comparatively simple legal organization and its financial strength, would come out victorious.

The article discusses the effects of monopoly in the gas supply industry in view of the supply of gas by Boston Gas Light Co. in Boston, Massachusetts. Some students of modern social and economic conditions viewed that the supply of gas should be kept in monopoly under strict public control. However, later this premise was discarded step by step through logical arguments. Detailed history of gas supply in the city by several companies is presented. The ill effects of monopoly in the industry are discussed. Some useful insights into the political influences in the industry, the role of law and legislation in such cases, and corruption concerning financial health of the business concerns are also presented.

The article focuses on the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association held in Boston, Massachusetts on August 26-29, 1968. The first meeting of the 1968 Council convened on August 25, 1968. In this meeting, the presence of a stenotypist to provide a record for information purposes only was noted and approved by the council. The secretary read the last financial statement of the association, indicating the amount of long and short term investments. The Executive Officer reported that more than 200 signatures had been received in support of a section on sociology of organizations and occupations, and that the Committee on Sections has recommended to the council that the organizers of the new section be authorized to proceed with such matters as the formulation of By-Laws and the formation of a Committee on Nominations, in order that a business meeting and program for the section could be held at the next Annual Meeting. The report of the Committee on Awards and Prizes was also discussed.

The article discusses the open letter on nuclear policy from 175 college and university professors in the Boston area to U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The material appeared in the August 21 issue of New York Times as an advertisement. It also published previous letters from Boston area professors, the first dealing with civil defense and the second with Cuba. Several of the endorsers have decided to form the informally organized Boston Area Faculty Group on Public Issues. The first civil defense letter appeared in the New York Times on November 10, 1961 after two months in newspapers nationwide. The issue is focused on the concerned inspection. The U.S. insists on unlimited inspection at an early stage, but the U.S.S.R. declines it until a late stage.

This article reports on research programs conducted by the University of Massachusetts' Labor Relations and Research Center (LRRC). The extension component of LRRC moved to Boston and was set up as the Institute for Labor Affairs, while the Amherst campus retains some of the expanded academic and research programs. Tim Bornstein and Frank McCullough are working on a book about the National Labor Relations Board. Milton Brooke, research coordinator of the Center, has focused on new methods of facilitating payments in industrial-accident litigation cases and is examining state laws relating to occupational health and safety, as well as how these laws complement the federal statute. Harvey L. Friedman studied the role and effectiveness of central labor bodies in preretirement training.

The article evaluates the appointment and telephone methods of following women who have been treated because of exposure to gonorrhea at the Boston City Hospital in Massachusetts. About 60 percent of 70 the women have returned for a second examination under the appointment method. With the telephone method, about 90.5 percent of the women have called for the results of their cultures and were given an appointment to return to the clinic. The authors stress that having the patients telephone for the results of their cultures seems to improve the efficiency of managing women who are treated.