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The annual election for officers and members of the Council of the American Political Science Association took place between November 2 and 23, 1970, with results reported in the Winter, 1971, issue of this journal. Voting was for one President-elect, three Vice Presidents, one Secretary, one Treasurer and eight members of the Council. There were two candidates each for President-elect, Secretary and Treasurer, five for Vice President and sixteen for Council. These candidates were nominated and supported by a variety of groups and three of these groups—The American Political Science Association nominating committee, the Ad Hoc Committee and the Caucus for a New Political Science—fielded complete or virtually complete slates.This report is an analysis of some of the patterns in the voting. We have worked with constraints, however. Since we received only ballots for the candidates, we were unable to analyze voting on constitutional amendments and resolutions or to look at candidate voting patterns in conjunction with voting patterns on issues. Secondly, there was the limitation inherent in any secret ballot; it was not possible directly to relate voting patterns to attributes of the voters. Thirdly, we did not receive the ballots until early April, 1971. Carding and analyzing them took so much time that we were not able to do all that we had planned. Thus this article is a great deal less comprehensive than we would have liked.

A new type of sunshine recorder has been developed; its design is based on the principle of a differential air thermometer. Simultaneous laboratory tests show that the instrument responds more rapidly and exhibits greater sensitivity than does the Marvin-type instrument.

Conclusions: Desmoplastic fibromas are rare tumors of the head and neck. Because these tumors are locally aggressive with a tendency for recurrence, complete surgical excision is the treatment of choice. However, for patients with recurrent tumors where complete excision is not possible due to significant morbidity or major loss of function, alternative treatment options include chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

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