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...Europe did not tremble. The four pint-sized countries-Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino and Andorra-have a combined population of 63,300, and their total armed forces would be insufficient to police Dubuque, Iowa. They were meeting in Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein, nestled in the Alps between Switzerland and Austria, to advance "the cause of peace by working for more tourism." This project, neatly combining idealism with the hope for profit, came from the teeming brain of Baron Edward von Falz-Fein, 47, a loyal Liechtensteiner of Ukrainian origin and the leading entrepreneur of Vaduz. He runs three tourist...
...bring contributions to the Agrarian Reform Institute, everything from pennies to axheads to old barbed wire. "I am in accord with Fidel." says Juan Mora, who owns 17 acres, a thatched hut, a cow and a pig. "I am going to register for more land." Chimes in Bootblack Ruiz Marino Arganza, 16: "Everybody for Fidel...
...Sack employs a racily frenetic style, e.g., using "chugalug" as a verb meaning to drink and "crackajack" as an adjective meaning excellent, and is often as determinedly elfin as Tchico, the dog ghost of Sark. In rating the 13 microcosmic spots he visited, Sack gives highest honors to San Marino, the mountaintop republic in Italy, and second place to polo-playing Punial, a small state near Kashmir. Readers may find the book too whimsy-whamsy to be described as crackajack, but it should not drive them to chugalug...
Critics find in the Sardinian bronzes a curious foreshadowing of works by such contemporaries as Henry Moore, Marino Marini. Georges Braque-and with good reason. One of the strongest moves in 20th century sculpture was to bypass classic Greek and Roman models to find inspiration in the earlier, cruder and fresher works of once scorned primitive art. The few Sardinian bronzes that are privately owned have brought offers of up to $16,000 for a single piece. An ardent admirer, Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, praises their vitality, says, "They are almost as free as we are today." Sardinians consider them priceless...
...what goes on behind the blank white walls of the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, a curiously truncated structure that jealous city officials stopped at mid-construction in the 18th century for fear that it would dwarf the city hall across the way. Up from the gondola landing stands Sculptor Marino Marini's strident Angel of the City (1948), a youth on horseback equipped with a detachable phallus that is respectfully removed whenever the Patriarch of Venice floats by to bless the city. Inside the palazzo, behind a 12-ft., barbed-wire-topped wall, lies more than...