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The article presents an overview of a series of papers presented at the third Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on Operating Systems Principles. They include "TENEX: A Paged Time Sharing System for the PDP-10," by D. G. Bobrow and colleagues, "Synchronization of Communicating Processes," by A. Nico Habermann, "Properties of the Working Set Model," by Peter J. Denning and Stuart C. Schwartz, and "An Operating System Based on the Concept of a Supervisory Computer," by R. S. Gaines.

The article informs that members of the Association for Computing Machinery's annual national conference are happy with the caliber and quantity of the papers received by them for the conference which will be held on August 24-26, 1965 in Cleveland, Ohio. Two years ago, the intensive technical refereeing process was introduced for screening papers for ACM national conferences. Technical papers will be given importance in the conference for the educational benefit of students. Public relations chairman for the conference Raymond F. Hitti is cooperating with professor Lewis Winner in planning the conference.

Presents news briefs pertaining to various cities and states in the U.S. as of May 28, 1938. Number of tax reports made by the National Dairy Products Co. in 1937; Amount of money spent by U.S. manufacturers on research; Approval of a beer license for federal-county highway workers by the State Alcoholic Commissioner in Newark, New Jersey.

Focuses on the use of floating bottles in the investigations made by the U.S. Hydrographic Office. Number of papers returned to the agency; Types of sea currents; Methods used in the research.