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town government to the Yale Interaction Laboratory. What the author has done is to examine in depth, i.e., as far as his mind could dig, various dimensions of small group decision-making by focusing on the finance committees of twelve Connecticut towns.

Included for analysis are such important matters as criteria for their decisions, per- ception of decision-makers’ power rela- tionships with other government agencies, influences in selecting their strategies, the context in which they make their decisions, the role of other members and particularly the chairman, and the kinds of integration and cohesion within the group.

A careful reading of this book will be useful for serious students, anxious to pursue the sociological and psychological dimensions of decision-making processes on all levels of government.

Additional Books and Pamphlets

(Bee also Researcher% Digest and other departmentd

American Government

PRINCIPLES OF AMERICAN GOVERNMENT. (Fifth edition.) By Albert B. Saye and Merritt B. Pound. Prentice-Hall, Engle- wood Cliffs, New Jersey, August 1966. 431 pp. Charts. $6.95.

Annexation

ADJUSTING MUNICIPAL BOUNDARIES. Law and Practice. Department of Urban Studies, National League of Cities, 1612 K Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 20006, December 1966, 354 pp.

Budgets

THE BUDGET IN BRIEF. Executive Office of the President, Bureau of the Budget, Washington, D. C., January 1967. 72 pp. Charts, tables. (Apply Superintendent of Documents, U. S. Gov-

ernment Printing Office, Washington, D. C. 20402.)

Tha City AMERICA’S PRIVATE CONSTRUCTION

INDUSTRY AND THE FUTURE AMERICAN CITY. By Harold F. Wise. American Cement Corporation, 2404 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles 90057, January 1966. 155 pp.

CITY OF MAN. 43rd Annual Congress of Cities, December 3-7, 1966, Las Vegas, Nevada. National League of Cities, 1612 K Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 20006. 1966. iii, 105 pp. Illus. $3.00.

Council-Manager Plan

COUNCIL-MANAGER PLAN. A Unified Response fo Urbanism. International City Managers’ Association, 1313 East 60th Street, Chicago 60637, October 1966. 15 pp. 20 cents.

Courts and Judiciary REAPPRAISAL OF THE CONNECTICUT

JUDICIARY. By I. Ridgway Davis. Con- necticut Government, Institute of Public Service, University of Connecticut, Storrs, January 1967. 8 pp. Tables.

Education THE UNIVERSITY IN AMERICA. Center

for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Box 4068, Santa Barbara, California 93103, January 1967. 44 pp.

Finance--Intergovernmental Relatiolu

A COMPENDIUM OF FED~AL AID PRO- GRAMS FOR PLANNING AND EFFECTUATING URBAN PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT. Pre- pared for Urban America, Inc., by the Center for Urban Studies, University of Chicago, 5852 University Avenue, Chicago 60637, June 1966. viii, 244 pp.

FEDERAL A m TO WASHINGTON STATIC AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. By Richard Chackerian. Bureau of Governmental Research and Services, University of

178 NATIONAL CIVIC REVIEW [March

Washington, Seattle 98105, Jdy 1966. 379 pp. $5.00.

Intergovernmental Cooperation

INTERGOVERNMENTAL CONTRACTS AND

AGREEMENTS IN HAMILTON COUNTY, OHIO. Part Two: R w d and Suburban H m d t m Cornly. Charter Research In- stitute, 1732 Carew Tower, Cincinnati, Ohio 45202, October 1966. 90 pp.

TION IN THE TBI-COUNTY AREA. Bureau of Municipal Research and Service, Uni- versity of Oregon, Eugene, November 1966. 55 pp. Tables. $3.00.

Land Use and Development

OPEN SPACE COMMUNITIES IN THE

MARKET PLACE. A Survey of Public Acceptance. By Carl Norcross. Urban Land Institute, 1200 Eighteenth Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. 20036, 1966. 97 pp. Charts, tables. $6.00

LOCAL INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERA-

Legislative Bodies

UNITED STATES. By Malcolm E. Jewel1 and Samuel C. Patterson. Random House, 501 Madison Avenue, New York 10022, 1966. 573 pp. Charts. $7.95.

THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS IN THE

Licensing

PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL LI- CENSING BOARDS. A Report to the For- tieth Legislative Assembly. Montana Leg- islative Council, State Capitol, Helena, November 1966. 29 pp. Tables.

TO AVOID COLLISIONS (Continued from page 136)

it seeks to control business activities in detail.

By and large, business does well when it sticks to what it knows best and has the strongest incentives for accomplishing. Business cannot solve

the race problem, but each business can make sure that it does not dis- criminate. Business cannot eliminate unemployment, but each business can do its competitive best to expand its own sales and employment. Business cannot stop inflation, but every busi- ness can strive for greater efficiency and lower costs.

One more of the many things that business can do is support rather than oppose well-considered government programs to accomplish what govern- ment can do and business cannot do.

The real question for businessmen is not how to stop the growth of gov- ernment. To meet our nation’s grow- ing problems and aspirations, both government and business must expand their responsibilities and activities. The only real question is which of them should do what.

It is imperative that we find better answers to this question, and that we find them soon. We should not delude ourselves, however. By the nature of the question, the answers can never be final or definitive. With the prog- ress of our country comes a steady flow of new challenges to business and government, and new questions about their roles.

Even more important, therefore, than the solutions of the moment i s the attitude we bring to the search for new ones. With a bit of humility and a great deal of common sense, better answers should not be too hard to find. And when we have them, business and government can get on with the job of working together toward the better life that all Amer- icans expect.