AIP in 1973—a year of publishing

A year of publishing—this is how the American Institute of Physics would characterize 1973 if asked to summarize its many‐faceted activities during that year in a single phrase. This may seem surprising, when some such statement as “publishing is still the major business of the Institute” has become a cliché in these annual reports. But in 1973 the number of interlocking trends and changes in AIP programs connecting in some way with publishing activities was unusually high. Examples range from expected to unexpected changes and include instances involving the publishing effort both directly and indirectly.