The author sends to all the editors copies of three papers and of a letter from the "Richard Goodman Memorial" Appeal Committee. He suggests to assign the royalties from the sales of the Review to the Appeal Committee.

The letter has six topics, in particular, the author agrees that McGee's paper is an excellent one, that it's necessary to help to the Goodman's Found, but he suggests to donate half the royalties for three years. He asks about a final decision on Colouris's paper.

The author decided to include the Coulouris' paper in Volume 6 of the Annual Review because the paper needs the revision. Comments on this paper are attached. The author agrees with the addressee and Ershov that they will not accept papers outside their area.

by W.McGee on D.Reifer's and R.Loesh's paper.

Before volume 6 to be issued shortly the authors review accomplishments and plans for the future. In particular, they are disappointed by the very small number of contributions from outside the United States. In this connection the following editors are noted: Floyd, Brooker, Bolliet, Ershov and Inada.

M.Halpern discusses results of the last few months, personnel changes in the Editorial Board, a preparing of the volume 7. There is a handwritten request to A.Ershov about getting papers for volume 7. The Attachment contains Royalty Statement from Pergamon Press and a list of contributions for volume 7&later.

The author suggests to open the account for payments from Pergamon Press to all the editors of ARAP as "joint tenants". In order to open such account each of the editors must fill a set of forms. There is a handwritten salutation to A.Ershov in the end of the letter.

The author has received an advance copy of volume 6 and discusses the contributions for Volume 7. Status of these contributions is represented in the Attachment.

The author thanks A.Ershov for the paper by Zagatsky and for agreeing to serve as responsible editor for the paper by Bekic.

The letter is addressed to all the editors of the Annual Review which should have received a copy of Volume 7, part 1. The status of contributions to the Review for Volume 7 & later (in an Attachment) is discussed.

to the letter to ARAP board members. M.Halpern describes the possibilities of a major improvement of ARAP sales and prestige, such as new title, free copies to influential people, additional editors in other countries.

The author reports that Maxwell, the head of Pergamon, keeps his promise and the translation of the Zagatsky paper should be complete in about a month. After this useful precedent, he hopes the addressee will provide with more papers from the USSR.

"File Structures for Generalized Data Management" by W.C.McGee.