NEWS AND NOTES.

The article presents news briefs related to industrial relations research as of October 1, 1962. Several major developments have taken place in the research and publication program of the University of California Institute of Industrial Relations, including the launch of the academic journal "Industrial Relations." The Management Sciences Research, an affiliate of the institute, has now become a Center for Research in Management Sciences. The field work for a comparative study of local politics and power structure in two New York towns has been completed by Robert Presthus and L. Vaughn Blankenship of the Cornell University Graduate School of Business and Public Administration. Several research projects are being undertaken by members of the faculty of the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations. A series of economic indicators for New Jersey is being developed by the Bureau of Economic Research at Rutgers.