[HBR] A Question About Handbooks

[waltah at earthlink.net]

The other night I got to looking at the Radio Amateur's Handbook.   
In my collection, '69 is the last 'good' book, the next one that I have 
is '72 and it marks the start (in my collection) of the beginning of 
the current 'Revenge of the Nerds' books, tuned for engineers -- 
presumeably those without a normal collection of engineering 
handbooks -- rather than hams.   

First question -- what about the '70 and '71 books?   Are they RON 
books or do they continue the earlier tradition?

I notice that the '69 book lists Doug DeMaw, W1CER, as editor; '72 
lists him with several others as an associate editor, one Douglas 
Blakeslee, W1KLK, as editor.  

Second question -- there has to be a story there.  Does anyone 
know what it is?   

Walt
KJ4KV