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This paper describes the present significance of international broadcasting; its growth and present status in both the Eastern and Western hemispheres; factors governing service to Columbia's new Latin American international network consisting of sixty-four stations located in eighteen different countries; the many problems attendant upon successful relaying of programs to these many points; facilities for this service, including new studios, frequency-modulation program-relay circuits, and two complete 50-kilowatt transmitting plants located at Brentwood, Long Island, New York; features of design and operating performance characteristics of the transmitting apparatus, including thirteen directive antenna arrays and their associated transmission lines. A typical international radio relay receiving-station installation and the importance of properly engineering such facilities, will also be briefly discussed.

In Newark, New Jersey, Federal Pacific Electric Company operates a complex of modern plants producing specialized electrical equipment for construction and industry. From its assembly lines pours an assortment of packaged products for the distribution and control of electric power—circuit breakers, load centers, switches, motor control, instruments—more than 2000 catalog items, ranging in price from one to several hundreds of dollars. Federal Pacific also operates an international network of other plants producing engineered electrical equipment approaching in bulk the size of a house, but these are not warehouse items and, as such, are not relevant to today's discussion.

The difficult problem of interface is typically not one of inward interface but one of outward interface. The data processing system for a given industrial corporation may be beautifully designed, but there may arise large problems of extending it to incorporate the activities of a newly acquired subsidiary already having a data solution of its own. A national on-line real-time hotel booking system may work well, but it just may not easily merge with a similar system in another country to form an international network. The present note describes the grave interface problems that seem to loom ahead in the field of on-line real-time central banking. The suggestion is put forward that the International Monetary Fund has a unique responsibility in preparing for interface between international payment networks of tomorrow.

of research reserves, pointing out that "The study of natural ecosystems holds the answer to many outstanding questions in biology, both pure and applied. Such complexes, however, are being destroyed at an unprecedented rate." Considering the importance and diversity of the world's ecosystems and their present rate of disappearance, the establishment and safeguarding of an international network of representative natural areas is becoming a matter of increasing concern to national and international organizations. Apart from their recognition of the scientific value of such areas, many international agencies are also aware of the economic and

To claim that communications have unified our world is by now to voice a truism. Within the span of a generation we have thrust headlong into an age of transition and readjustment, the definitive trend of which is towards a world-wide mobility of goods, ideas, and the citizens who produce them. The role of the air route in this process is no longer a matter of dispute, and it is clear that the time has come to consider certain technical questions which underlie any detailed scheme for a truly international network of airways.

The Danish Research Council has provided funding for a new international network, Research network for curatorial studies, (ca. 1 million dkr.) for a two-year period. The network is based at University of Copenhagen with principal leaders Malene Vest Hansen, Ph.D. in Art History, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, and Anne Folke Henningsen, Ph.D. in History, the Saxo Institute. The following is a short introduction to the background for and the objectives of the network.