Focusing on new frontiers in college and adult reading, the papers in this volume were drawn from the fifteenth annual meeting of the National Reading Conference held in 1965. Among the topics covered in the 26 papers are the following: reading in the Guatemalan environment, the use of instrumentation in reading, correlates of concentration, the cloze procedure, reactive inhibition and reading achievement, reading/study skills instruction, adult illiterates, the language of the socially disadvantaged, literacy programs throughout the world, reading research, learning theories, conceptualization in learning to read, personality factors and the development of successful readers, content area reading, mental content, classroom social organization, linguistic fallacies, a psycholinguistic view of reading comprehension, reading improvement through vocabulary development, a televised speed-reading experiment, and measuring reading performance. (FL)