News frown the American Heart Association

s will be accepted up to Sept. 1,1981, at Postgraduate Programs, American Heart Association, 7320 Greenville Ave., Dallas, TX 75231. The Meeting is sponsored by the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association, Cerebrovascular Surgery Section of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the Canadian Stroke Society of the Canadian Heart Foundation, the American Neurological Association, and the Society for Vascular Surgery. Gordon Sessions Scheduled On Atherosclerosis, Muscle A four-day session on atherosclerosis will be part of the Gordon Research Conferences at Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, NH, June 22-25. DeWitt S. Goodman and Donald M. Small are co-chairmen. Other sessions of interest to workers in the cardiovascular area will be a five-day session on muscle proteins June 29-July 3 at Holderness School, Plymouth, NH; meetings on lipid metabolism, enzymes and metabolic pathways at the Kimbell Union Academy, June 15-19, and July 6-10; the central nervous system, June 22-26 at Tilton School, Tilton NH; and catecholamines, Aug. 1014 at Proctor Academy, Andover NH. The Conferences, directed by Alexander M. Cruickshank of the University of Rhode Island, were initiated in 1931 and now have some 100 annual meetings attended by 10,000 scientists. Information may be obtained from Dr. Cruickshank, Pastore Chemical Laboratory, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881. Tel. 401-783-4011 or 3372.