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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...
...crisis began to simmer a fortnight ago, involving Lott's right to discipline an outspoken golpista army colonel. This dispute turned into a decisive test of strength between Lott and the golpe faction. In the midst of the crisis, a heart attack flattened President Joāo Café Filho, and the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Carlos Luz, took over as Brazil's Acting President. Luz, suspected of being a golpista, ruled against War Minster Lott in the affair of the loose-lipped colonel. Lott resigned, and Luz promptly named a golpista general as War Minister...
...slaughter when, in the space of 20 years, the hide hunters wiped the buffalo herds from the face of the West. From Texas to Idaho they left "nothin but bones layin white in the sun like an alkali flat . . . and the wagon wheels breakin em like sticks." Milton Lott. 35-year-old millwright who got a Houghton Mifflin fellowship for this first novel, was born and raised in the Snake River country, the scene of his story. He describes his hunters' comfortless lives with an intimacy of detail that makes fine reading even of such simple events as pitching...
...Karl Lott Rankin, 54, chargé d'affaires in Taipei, Formosa, to be Ambassador to Nationalist China. A seasoned diplomat (Prague, Athens, Vienna, Belgrade, Brussels, Cairo, Canton, Hong Kong and other posts), Rankin has been Ambassador to China in all but name since August 1950, when he took over for ailing Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart...
...Game. In Cameron, Texas, while watching a cattle auction, Doris Lott slapped at a fly, was informed that she had just bought a calf...