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...with most luxury goods in bountiful supply, art remains one of the few scarce precious commodities. As more and more new bidders, ranging from newly prosperous Europeans to newly rich Texans and Brazilian millionaires, start cutting themselves into art for both prestige and speculation, the supply of currently approved classics is drying up. Older masterpieces have all but disappeared from the market-either by "cold socialization," i.e., being declared "national treasures," or by winding up in art museums...
...army toppled the President last week in a Brazilian-style revolution: bloodless, almost gentle, and, to foreigners, bewildering. It was a coup to forestall a coup, a "preventive revolution...
...Brazilian army officers traditionally like to think of themselves as the true de fenders of constitutional government. A fervent upholder of that tradition is Lieut. General Henrique Teixeira Lott, 61, leader of last week's revolt. In recent months War Minister Lott had emerged as the army's sturdiest opponent of the faction called golpistas-the military and civilian leaders who favor a golpe (coup) to keep middle-roading President-elect Juscelino Kubitschek (TIME, Oct. 17 et ante) from taking office next January...
...Luis, on thenorth coast of the Brazilian hump, for fuel...
...Brazilian Dr. Lauro Sollero studies how one billionth of a gram of serotonin (a powerful, blood pressure-raising chemical isolated by Page and colleagues) makes a strip of rat uterus contract, and the ways in which serotonin and other body chemicals cancel each other's effects. Dr. James McCubbin is probing breakdowns in nerve impulses that throw blood-pressure control out of kilter. Famed Internist Willem Kolff, who invented the artificial kidney when his native Netherlands was under Nazi occupation, has developed a $14 model in a gallon can. Dr. Page himself spends two or three days a week...