Assistod by Dean C. Baker, Michigan (6enoral Magazines); Donald E. Brown, Illinois Radio and Tolovision) ; Charles T. Duncan, Orogon I Community Nowspapen); Armirtead S. Pride, Lincoln (Negro Journalism) Denouement in two longstanding communication controversies took place during the last three months of I955 with the return of several Argentine newspapers, including La Prensa of Buenos Aires and El Intransigente of Salta, to their owners and the settlement of the Lamb case in favor of the licensee. Relations between the government and the press were active on a number of fronts. Investigation of newspapermen with alleged Communist backgrounds on the sta8 of the N.Y. Times by a Senate sub-committee drew criticism from that newspaper as an attempt at intimidation of the newspaper for past editorial stands. The Moss committee in Washington continued to examine news release procedures of a number of executive departments and agencies. An oficial, specially prominent in restricting news in the Commerce and Defense departments, left the federal service in what some sources claimed was an example of newspaper pressure.

What biases did the three leading news magazines show toward candidates during the period of the 1960 presidential nominating conventions? The authors use Evaluative Assertion Analysis techniques to explore this question.

Although presidential candidates of the two major parties received approximately equal news space on the front pages of 14 papers, the Eisenhower cause definitely had an advantage in the number of top headlines and large pictures used. Dr. Higbie is assistant professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin.

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Thirteen research projects focusing on the I960 presidential campaign indicate a broader collective balance in approaching the many areas of the political mass communication process than did the various studies in I952 and 1956. Eflects, audience, content and communicator studies are included. *The author is associate professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin. He undertook this survey of research projects growing out of the 1960 election at the request of the editor of the QUAWBRLY.