critical remarks on the received articles

Pergamon Press sends his check for $915.28 as requested in the addressee's letter of April 13, 1971. The publishing parts 1&2 of volume 5 or the complete volume is discussed in the letter.

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 continues to discuss a theme of publishing and the salability of individual parts of ARAP volumes. He thinks the part sales will be successful.

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.

consent to accept Bekie’s paper; doubt about its chances to be in time for the 7th volume

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

information that Zagatsky has not been translated here

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.

notification of Bekic’s paper having been accepted

argumentations on the need for broad advertising of ARAP (Annual Review in Automatic Programming) in different computer editions; surprise apropos the problems with Zagatsky’s translation

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.