about his plans to visit the Novosibirsk Computing Center on recommendation of his colleagues, Prof. Dennis and Prof. McCarthy. Attached is a copy of his letter to academician Marchuk.

Information on the translation of the book "ALPHA - The Programmed System of Automation"

Preliminary information on the International Congress of Cybernetics to be held in London; attached is an application form.

to a file copy of the report "Comparative Evaluatioon of PL/I".

with many thanks for a note to his text "Automatic Information Organization and Retrieval".

A proposition to extend subscription to Data Processing Monographs at a lower price.

on events and activities of the Department of Linguistics, SUNY-Buffalo, for Fall 1969, such as additional courses, seminars, a two-day symposium "Humanities and Computers'69", research fellowships, and others.

about the first Richard Goodman Memorial Lecture "The language of computers" by Lord Bowden.

from the editorial board of "Annual Review in Automatic Programming" with a proposition to publish Lord Bowden's talk "The Language of Computers".

with a ballot on ACM questions of importance.

To assist consideration of the questions submitted for voting, these pages contain the history, pro and con statements for each question.

An invitation to visit the exhibition "Automation 69" in Moscow and to attend the lecture "Industrial automation using Olivetti devices for automated information processing" (an original letter in Italian and its translation into Russian).

Information on the next meeting of Working Group 2.1 in Banff, Canada.

The author expresses his gratitude for Ershov's hospitality; he also explains his attitude to voting on Algol 68.

A suggestion to subscribe to Computer Digest at a lower price; an order form is attached.

The author expresses his gratitude for a warm welcome and interesting excursion to the Novosibirsk Computing Center.

Urgent request to pay for a 1 year subscription; an envelope for reply is attached.

The author asks to welcome his French colleague who is intended to come to Novosibirsk.

The problem of translation of the book "ALPHA - The Programmed System of Automation" is discussed.

The date of a report at the seminar on programming is changed because of the meeting on Algol 68.