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Rice game is Switch Off for the Kickoff The Texas A&M Traditions Council is sponsoring Ladies’ Choice Weekend, featuring the Switch Off for the Kickoff football game against Rice University. Boutonnieres will be on sale in the MSC all week. Ladies, take your favorite guy out and "Show’em how it should be done!” Student Athletics Committee is forming The Texas A&M Athletic Department and Student Government are proud to announce the formation of a student committee on ath letics. An organizational meeting will be held tonight at 7:30 p.m. in the Letterman’s Lounge of G. Rollie White. Student leaders and ath letic administrators will be present to explain the committee. For more information, please contact Scott Cummings at the Student Government Office, 845-3051. Class of ( 86 picnic tickets on sale now The Class of‘86 is sponsoring a “Buns Bonanza” picnic from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Bee Creek Park. There will be hotdogs, volleyball and softball. Pickets are on sale in 216 MSC for $3.50. He; Doctors try new heart operation United Press International NEW YORK — A heart doctor at the Presbyterian Hospital says that before long, up to one-third of coro nary bypass operations may be re placed by a simpler procedure that is easier on patients and the pocket- book. In the new technique, called an gioplasty, a balloon-tipped catheter is threaded into an artery and guided to the spot where the coro nary artery is narrowed by a buildup of fatty material. The balloon is then inflated with fluid to widen the pas sageway. In coronary bypass surgery, by contrast, the chest is opened and and veins taken from the legs are used to bypass clogged arteries leading to the heart. It is major surgery done under general anesthesia and usually a two-week hospitalization and lengthy recuperation at home. Dr. Dennis Reison, director of the Coronary Angioplasty Program at Presbyterian, said coronary angio plasty patients only require a local anesthesia and generally go home in a day or two to resume a normal life style. “As far as patients are concerned, this is a medical miracle,” said Dr. Eric Powers, director of the Adult Cardiovascular Laboratory at Pres byterian. “They know what the dif ference is and they really appreciate it.” Reison said people with solidly clogged heart blood pipelines are not suitable candidates for the less invasive procedure. Reison estimates that currently 10 percent to 20 percent of patients whose coronary artery disease per sists despite medical treatment can be treated with coronary angioplasty instead of bypass surgery. Dr. Andreas Greutzig performed the first coronary angioplasties in Zurich, Switzerland, around 1977. Greutzig, still working at even bolder applications for angioplasty, now is a professor at Emory Univer sity Medical School in Atlanta. “Until 1980,” Reison said, “very few angioplasties were done any where. But in the last several years the practice has become increasingly widespread as the technology in volved steadily improved.” Reison said bypass surgery costs from $20,000 to $25,000 and angio plasty, $5,000. He said the long-term success of angioplasty depends on how the ves sel wall heals. Eighty percent of the time, he reported, the procedure is successful. The vessel heals, leaving a nice round opening. At Presbyterian, Reison said the procedure tends to he restricted to patients having one or two blood narrowed arteries. To date, in some 150 coronary an gioplasties at Presbyterian, the survi val rate has been nearly 100 percent. From three to six of the procedures are performed weekly. you know the story... ^CENERENTOLA THE CINDERELLA STORY ...now see the opera! MSCOPAS OCTOBER 29 TICKETS: 845-1234 Tradition of calls for Vast art holdings cataloged , well-eoui :ire (adits i md faculi) nducted at ti :tensive pli« dilations oft :afftotheei United Press International NEW YORK — It’s going to take ine bulky volumes to catalog the ast art holdings of Baron Heinrich hyssen-Bornemisza, the world’s reatest living private collector, but y the time they’re published there tay be need for nine more. A Swiss international conglomera- teur with major investments in the United States, Thyssen has been buying paintings on an average of ■00 a year, from Old Masters to con temporary Americans, adding to a ast family accumulation of art be- un by his grandfather, founder of A pre-World War I German iron and steel empire. The Thyssen holdings include more than 1,500 paintings and ulptures and thousands of an tiques, porcelains, ivories, glass, car ets and jewels. They are housed in e baron’s Villa Favorita in Switzer land and at Daylesford, an English country house. The first volume of the series, “Renaissance Jewels, Gold Boxes and Objets de Vertu”, has just been published by Vendome Press, an event accompanied by exhibition of collection for the first time at Sothe by’s galleries in New York and Los Angeles. Thyssen is a Sotheby’s board member and made the loan to help celebrate the famed auction house’s centennial. World’s greatest collector lets public see treasures 30% off all Loose Diamonds 'Get highest Quality Diamond with a one year guarantee on our special setting.' 'Financing Available' 415 University Dr. 846-4751 “Actually, I don’t consider my jewels, boxes and art objects a collec tion,” the vigorous, 63-year-old Thyssen said on his visit for the So theby’s exhibit and show of his ency clopedic American art collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art. “These are things that I have for my own enjoyment in the private part of my villa in Lugano, Switzer land. The public, which is free to visit my art collection at the villa, never sees these things. I’m really a collector of pictures, you know.” Among the treasures Thyssen has acquired for private enjoyment are Renaissance jewelry, 18th century gold boxes embellished with brilliant enamels and encrusted with jewels — including one that belonged to Frederick the Great — and objects designed by Faberge for the Russian imperial court. Most were obtained in recent years at auction from Sotheby’s And its rival, Christie’s, from the La Vieille Russie shop in New York, and from private collections includ ing the Rothschilds’, but Thyssen said the sources are drying up. “Rare pieces in good condition are difficult to find,” Thyssen said. “You don’t want something damaged or badly preserved. There is a lot of Fa berge on the market of course, as the families of Czarist refugees grad ually sell off to take advantage of the high market prices, but I consider Faberge more craftsmanship than art.” Thyssen does not own one of Fa- berge’s famed Easter Eggs made for Czar Nicholas II and other Roma noffs and he does not intend to ac quire one. But he does not consider his collection of jewels and boxes a “frozen” one just because it has been catalogued. “It doesn’t work that way,” he said with a chuckle. “I’m not actively buy ing these things now — but things will come along.” Thyssen said many Renaissance pieces of jewelry were broken up and reset as styles changed, but some have been passed down in families to the present day. Fine silver and gilt objects, often set with jewels, made for cities, guilds and churches also have been preserved. “You understand that the stones in these pieces have no real value as jewels today,” Thyssen said. “They didn’t look for purity and color as they do today. The idea was the overall effect and the symbolic sig nificance of certain stones. The real value is in the workmanship of the metal and the design.” Thyssen said such workmanship has almost disappeared in modern times, except perhaps for Cartier’s “mystery” clocks and some settings by Van Cleef & Arpels, the interndo- nal jewelers, but the precision of 18th century French goldsmiths as evidenced by their snuff boxes has never since been matched. The collection of art objects will return to Villa Favorita, but Thys- sen’s other collections are contin ually traveling the world and have been seen all over Eurppe, in Russia, New Zealand, Australia, and many parts of the United States. Many paintings are on loan to U.S. embas sies. One of the most popular is his American collection, ranging from Colonial portraitist John Singleton Copley to contemporary photoreal ist Richard Estes, acquired in less than 15 years. 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