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...stable middle class is more and more influential. Each year, as the economic milestones flick by, the country takes a festive day off to hear the President report on just how far it has come; last week President Adolfo Lopez Mateos rode through crowd-jammed streets to the Chamber of Deputies to deliver his fifth annual state of the union message. Since he is constitutionally barred from succeeding himself, it was also his last before the presidential elections next July, and the nationally televised speech turned out to be a long (4 hr. 25 min.) summing...
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...East, has the most exciting modern dance group in America. Duke Ellington's band leaves this week for a 14-week tour of the Middle East-at just the season when it might be drawing its biggest audiences at home. Africa is getting two excellent chamber groups, the Dorian Quintet and the Claremont Quartet-a visit that may help dispel the notion that the U.S. considers Africa a continent of nothing but natural-born jazz lovers. Choirs from five colleges and universities and the University of Illinois Symphony Orchestra are going abroad, and next spring Latin America will...
Standard treatment for air embolism is to put the victim into a recompression chamber, but Dr. Kruse did not know where the nearest chamber was. Fortunately, the twitch in the head-dropped position gave him an idea. By chance, the examining table had a tilting mechanism. The doctor propped up the diver's head until his chin rested on his chest-the same position that had produced the hopeful twitch. Then he spun the control wheel until the head end of the table had dropped about 15 degrees. As fast as he could, he spun the wheel again until...
...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...