Describes career opportunities for chemists considering employment areas of opportunity, salaries, college chemistry enrollments, research and development budgets, long term forecasts of supply and demand for chemists. Includes career planning aids, and an employers directory of chemical professions. (DF)

The theme for the AALS annual conference was Research and Legislation in Library Education.'' The conference programs are reported. (NH)

Priorities of responsibility are discussed and distinguished from life and death as vital issues. Vital issues are felt to be most important; avoidance of catastrophes which, even if they did not eradicate human life, could decimate mankind. (DF)

Inconsistencies have arisen between earth-bound observations and data collected from space probes. These inconsistencies center on the moon's structure, temperature, magnetization, composition, and origin. (DF)

A journalism teacher decries the misuse of committees. (RK)

Data on the performance of chemical companies are presented in this section of the annual report on the chemical industry, including: productivity, unit labor costs, chemical company performance, wholesale prices, shipments and inventories, and industrial production. (PR)