Conference schedule, Proceedings publication, financial terms, the list of invited foreign guests

from SIGART Newsletter N47-48 discussing the letter by J.Minker urging to hold IJCAI-4 in another country or to boycott it, and reaction of prominent scientists.

on the Editorial Board of "Annual Review" in 1964. Professor Andrei P. Ershov was a member of this Editorial Board.

Important administrative and editorial procedures are discussed. The author consents to all of Ershov's suggestions.

Author sends a copy of Sanderson's paper to R.W.Floyd to review it by the middle of April. He plans to be at the Conference in Atlantic City and if Floyd will be there they can meet.

Author enclosed a detailed report on the d'Imperio paper for ARAP (Annual Review in Automatic Programming).

Author constructively criticizes Mr.Bemer's article which is "for the most part devoted to the political history of ALGOL in the USA rather than the scientific history of ALGOL in the computational world" as well as expresses his opinion about papers of Brown and Sanderson.

Author approves of the topic of the paper and asks to send the finished paper by July 1. To speed the editorial machinery, addressees can send the paper copies to each of the members of the Editorial Board.

Author gives his opinion on the Bemer's article "History of ALGOL": "I won't make any recommendation on whether or not to publish, but it should be retitled."

This letter is addressed to all editors of the Annual Review. They are asked to send any comments to Prof. Floyd, the responsible editor for the survey on "Translator Writing Systems" by J.A. Feldman and D. Gries.

The author informs of appearing the paper "Translator Writing Systems" in the "Communications of ACM". They would like to receive any comments of Annual Review Editorial Board which may be available.

Reply to the letter of July, 11. Authors submit the paper for the following volume. To the end of this year they hope to improve the second version of their formal definition of PL/1.

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.

reviewing E.Tyugu's paper.

request to participate in the symposium in theoretical programming scheduled for the summer of 1972; thanks for the books and promise to send documents on BETA system