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This article reports on research publications related to dentistry and the International Association for Dental Research. The article also discusses William J. Gies, the founder and first editor of the periodical, and the William J. Gies Foundation for the Advancement of Dentistry. It is noted that the foundation funds research papers.

The article reports developments pertaining to the Council for Exceptional Children (CEC). The establishment of a CEC Foundation for Exceptional Children was approved by the 1971 Delegate Assembly. The CEC has received several requests to take stands on the issues concerning the improvement of the education of exceptional children. The 1971 Delegate Assembly has authorized the Policy Statement on Governmental Affairs. The council has recommended an additional federal funding for research projects that will contribute in advancing the instruction of exceptional children and youth.

This article expresses concerns over emerging bureaucratic trends in sociological research. The author states that major changes are taking place in the American sociology research. These are the large-scale organization and financing of research and the emergence of "team" or collective-type research endeavors. It seems that the "days of one-man research are over and "Group" or "team" endeavors, carried on within a highly structured institutional setting, have become the accepted means of formulating theories, testing hypotheses, and furthering knowledge. The merits of proposed research are judged largely by two criteria--the cost of the undertaking and the number of participants. Though in this process the large corporation's monopoly on groupism and "togetherness" has been broken but a number of liabilities have been ignored also, which are endemic to team research endeavors. Sociologists have silenced their voices to the limitations imposed on them by the very institutional structure essential to the collective type of inquiry.