Conference on Technology and Govern-JL ance in Achieving Environmental Quality, held at Gaithersburg, Maryland on September 20, 21, and 22, was notable in several respects.It was the culmina tion of more than 18 months of planning on the part of a few individuals in IEEE and some of its sister professional societies to explore the possibilities for achieving compatibility between the capabilities of technologists and the wisdom of public administra tors, it brought iaue-lO-iaCe, Θιιιίϋθιιί engineers, scientists, administrators, and planners in environ mental fields from societies ranging from IΕ Ε E ?AIChE and AAAS to the American Institute of Plan ners, American Bar Association, American Medical Association, and the American Institute of Public Ac countants .Participants came from government agen cies as well as private organizations.The results of the Conference will be reported in journals of the constituent societies.Of note to the v^iiijUiiuuvaifUi σ nuw

Technical writing means many things to many people. The instructive literature for the field generally either emphasizes that portion of the field conforming to the author's interpretation or attempts to cover the entire field with general concepts and admonitions. Rarely does a book appear that covers as much, as clearly, and in as practical a manner as Technically — Write! by R. S. Blicq. Mr. Blicq is Head of the Industrial and Technology Communication Department at Red River Community College, in Winnepeg, Canada. He obviously has had extensive experience teaching technical communications and, in this text book, he speaks familiarly at the undergraduate level. More than this, his presentation holds a warmth and intimacy that is uncharacteristic of instructional literature: the professor is speaking to you in his classroom. Although the physical scientist and even the graduate engineer may tend to view the style as being below his level of sophistication, Mr. Blicq has packed almost every principle of clear technical exposition on the widest variety of communications in this 380-odd page book, along with “problems” in the form of work assignments at the end of each chapter. Even for the professional communicator, this book holds much of value as a reference when he is faced with an assignment in a portion of the field outside of his specialty.

JPVJR Group's Conference on the Psychology of Technical Communications, held in Philadelphia this past February, served to dramatically display the widening scope of professional communications.Just as the many disciplines of science and engineering are merging to an extent where boundaries are obscured, so have the subdivisions of communications overlapped to a point where distinctions become very difficult.John Phillips, now our President, organized the Conference into its three major sessions: Communications among Engineers and Scientists.Communications to Engineers and Scientists, and Communications from Engineers and Scientists.The list of speakers included, in addition to professional communicators who specialize in the support and education of t(*rYin\rci\ nprcnnnp] workers in the field nf sociology, nsv-