WILLIAM S. HALSTEAD was supervisory engineer and consultant to the Nippon Television Network Corporation, Tokyo, in establishing the first commercial television service in the Far East. He also is the author of a proposed North Atlantic Relay Communications Plan which is now under consideration in North America and in Europe. President of Unitel, Inc., a global television enterprise, he was invited in 1959 to Moscow to present a paper at the International Electronics Conference, and while there observed the development of television in the Soviet Union.