of sufficient value by itself to induce you to contribute. If the item is of sufficient importance to be incorporated into the text I shall use it there, if not then it will go into this appendix section. In any case, in the interest of making this book as complete as our combined ingenuity can make it please do this. And do it before you forget it, like NOW. Reason being that I shall be getting to work on the final touches of the book shortly after my return from the Orient and I'd like to have all suggestions for it and contributions to it that you may make to be in a nice little pile waiting for me. Thanks.

EDITORIAL EMANATIONS

WHERE AM I, YOUR EDITOR?

I am composing this early in July in the hope that I can get it to the printer before I leave on my trip and if I do it should be reaching you late in August. At that time I should be in Hong Kong or Japan checking out the World Fair. I promised myself in 1967 in Montreal that I would go to Tokyo to the next fair in 1970 and plans are all made to keep that promise. I'll be gone 6 weeks — all of August and half of September. So as soon as I return I have to start throwing No. 64 together. As all readers are aware I never have been able to catch up from the delays that occurred during my European trip last year. This issue should have been a couple of months earlier. However, I am going to try desperately to get out my required 6 issues (through No. 66) before the end of this year. To do this I will have to put some issues together without the variety of material that I usually try to have. I might even have to make one issue all Fiction. Some of you would think that was great, no sacrifice, but there would be others who would complain because of lack of more instructive articles,,experiences, histories, etc. I know I can't win, but I'm going to do my best to get back in stride before the end of this calendar year.

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MATERIAL: With the ambition of three more issues after this one in 1970 it should be obvious that I will eat through a rather terrific pile of material. I have to keep quite a back log on hand ready for assembling into finished issues. This many this close together will about wipe out that back log, so I put in a plug now to those of you who enjoy writing in any of the categories we try to supply material in to send it in to me. I'll even try to have another picture issue at the