An overview of the past, present, and future of research and development (R and D) related to severely visually impaired persons covers the following subjects: documentation, creation of an armamentarium of aids (including both ordinary and highly sophisticated devices), the financing of R and D, the problem of technology transfer, dealing with…

Two broad groups of indicators are examined: social, divided into demographic and others, and economic, divided into agricultural and nonagricultural. One indicator that applies to West Africa is selected for each subgroup. (Author/ND)

Proposes an attack on the world food problem which includes the realization that we can eliminate hunger and starvation, the recognition of food as a world currency, and the recognition of the role of chemistry in the improvement of food production, distribution, and preservation. (GS)

Underwater intelligibility of three standard word lists is evaluated in two experiments. Results indicate that words which are equated for difficulty in normal conditions are likewise equated under water. Phoneme distortion was examined in a multiple choice test which showed fricatives and place of production to be most affected under water. (SC)

Previous arguments that matriarchy is a myth in the black lower classes are reviewed and an additional argument is presented: the irrelevance of heretofore employed decision-making measures for lower-class blacks. (Author)

Analyzes the relationships between four sets of ratings given to college students while in a preparation program for teaching credentials. Ratings by 1) college and public school supervisors, 2) college classroom instructors, 3) student-peer groups, and by 4) students themselves via self-ratings are evaluated for significant relationship patterns.…

Reports on activities related to the development of an alternative, and radically different, mode of food production. (GS)

This simulation project is valuable as a means of training and evaluation in counselor education and in studying counselor cognitive processes. It also provides an opportunity to test the sufficiency of an explicit set of theoretical constructs for explaining client behavior. (Author)

The sample groups consisted of 570 women and 1,031 men who were National Merit Scholars in 1966. Differentiations of career groups from the SVIB-M were compared for men and women. Results suggest that a single form of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank is potentially feasible for predicting college major and career choices of women as well as…

Two direct skill-training programs involving behavior rehearsal with and without extrasession tasks were evaluated against attention-placebo and waiting list controls. Forty-eight college males were subjects. Results indicated that three of the four skill training groups showed significant increases in social dating skill level on the Role-Played…

The authors found that teachers perceive a significant relationship between job satisfaction and the value of work, but there was no significant difference between vocational and non-vocational teachers; in terms of demographic variables, community size and teacher income were significantly related to the meaning of work and job satisfaction,…

The authors, with reference to four research studies of rehabilitation counseling graduates, report on the professionalization of rehabilitation counseling and outline some emergent implications for manpower policy. (Author/EA)

The citrus thrips is a small insect pest that causes some cosmetic damage, but seldom causes yield reduction, tree kills, or lower the nutritional value or eating quality of citrus fruits. In California however, economic and marketing factors have prompted the massive, unnecessary overuse of insecticides to kill this pest. (Author/MA)

Pre-crisis trends, malnutrition figures, demand and supply outlook, production potentialities, policy implications, and brief descriptions of the world's major food crops are provided. (DE)