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...many of their traditional notions about British manners, measures and money. Export prices are not so often quoted only in sterling these days, and delivery dates are no longer taken so lightly. By learning to cut men's suits to Continental tastes, the Leeds tailoring firm of Atkinson Rhodes expanded its exports to half of its total volume. Senior executives are increasingly attending language schools, and their proficiency will be rated, from "elementary" to "advanced," in exams set up by the London and Birmingham chambers of commerce. For the recent "British Week" in Zurich, promotional pamphlets were printed...
Smaller Bubbles. Dr. Kruse discussed the happenstance treatment with another skindiving friend, Dr. James R. Atkinson, then at the University of Washington. Working with cats, Neurosurgeon Atkinson found that tilting succeeded repeatedly in clearing up air embolism. He now thinks that in the head-down position, the brain receives more blood, so that its small vessels dilate and are better able to push the air bubbles along. The bubbles then split up until they become so small that they can be dissolved in the blood...
...Atkinson and Kruse do not recommend the tilting-table treatment as a substitute for recompression. But as a first-aid measure until the embolism victim can be hauled to a pressure chamber, which may be miles away, they think tilting may prevent many cases of permanent brain damage...
...Broadway's semiofficial date of birth is April 25, 1952, the day Brooks Atkinson's review of the Circle-in-the-Square's arena-styled revival of Tennessee Williams' Stimmer and Smoke appeared in the New York Times. Then there were fewer than ten off-Broadway theaters; in 1963, there...
...Fort Atkinson...