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This article discusses a study on social status and clique formation among grammar school boys in London, England. This paper reports on another aspect of the inquiry into the effects of social class at adolescence, which has been carried out at the London School of Economics and Political Science in England under the direction of Doctor H. T. Himmelweit. Within the broad framework of the research project, an important place was allotted to problems of peer group selection. Moreover, the paper is based on information from three sources: a choice of friend questionnaire, a sociometric questionnaire and an open-ended question on the attributes of a good friend. The most interesting conclusion which has emerged from these data points to an important difference between this country and the U.S. In both countries, the adolescent's value system largely determines his friendship choices. In England, it has been shown that similar class stereotypes may be found and it is quite possibly true that such friendship criteria as are embodied in the choice of a friend questionnaire reflect parental values. It could also be argued, that the working class boys in the grammar school are exceptional, in that they come from homes where middle class values are prevalent. In England, it may be said in general that by having secondary grammar and secondary modern schools, the working class pupils are divided into those who will be given an opportunity for social ascent and those who will not. England deliberately segregates the new recruits to the higher social levels and gives them more advanced training in separate schools. Under these conditions, several factors combine to give the working class boy those attitudes, interests and motives which are concomitant with his future social position.

Presents news briefs related to the criminology profession in the U.S., as of February 1964. Details of an educational trip by students to London, England, which is part of the Winter Term program at Florida Presbyterian College; Award received by Sanford Bates, an author and lecturer on criminology and penology, from the Law School at Northeastern University; Information on the paper read by Arthur L. Beeley of the University of Utah and John S. Boyden, formerly U.S. District Attorney, at the 93rd Annual Congress of Correction in Portland.

This article presents an abstract for the paper "American Banks in London's Eurodollar Market," by Philip Saunders Jr. Thirteen U.S. banks with branches in London, England are some of the heaviest and most persistent borrowers of Eurodollars. They have been able to borrow at an eighth to a quarter percent margin below the rate available to European banks, evidently because some lenders believed that the U.S. banks were better risks or that dollars were properly the business of U.S. banks. The Eurodollar deposits have been employed for four purposes: loans in the interbank Eurodollar market, swaps into foreign currency loans, loans to corporate customers and repatriation to the bank's head office.

This article presents results of a study conducted in two suburbs outside London, England and San Francisco, California, respectively, to ascertain family relationships. It was found that the groups were found to be similar, when in both cases, parents in their old age maintained close ties with their adult children both in terms of geography and frequency of contact, and daughters play consistently more important parts in their parents' lives than sons. The difference was that a larger proportion of the American group have knowledge of and pride in their pedigree, while the English group have relatively little knowledge of ancestry. The study was carried out on a countrywide basis in a limited way with a group of 3,964 for the U.S.A. and 900 for Great Britain. Results of the study suggest that old people generally maintain close links with their children and that the mother-daughter tie is the central nexus of the kinship network of industrial societies. Concern for ancestry seems to be more pronounced in the U.S.A. than in Great Britain. But in view of the size of the inquiry these statements are not so much findings as suggestions for further research.