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...prove to the world that they are the legal government of their republic. On a mountain near the plain near the Adriatic, another hundred men insist they are the true, Communist government for the same republic. Instead of missiles the antagonists are hurling insults, but for all else, San Marino today is a microcosm of the world...
...twelve years the Communist-dominated government of San Marino has managed to stay in office despite the failure of its schemes to make a proper satellite out of the pocket-size (38 sq. mi.) republic that perches on the Apennines 60 miles east of Florence in north central Italy. But last week an unlikely rebel had the people talking angrily about throwing out the Reds once and for all. The issue: progressive education. The rebel: Mother Veronica, the frail, 74-year-old abbess of the Convent of St. Clare, who runs a top-notch traditionalist school for about...
...freewheeling French innovator who claims non-Freinet schools teach by the medieval notion of rigid authority, argues for a classless classroom, with the teacher as merely a "master companion" who discusses with the pupils what and how they should study. Montanari installed the Freinet method in all of San Marino's elementary schools except one: Mother Veronica's St. Clare's Convent...
Cookies & Assurance. Mother Veronica's stand was cheered through all of San Marino (pop. 13,000). Parents climbed up to the grey stone convent atop a 900-ft. cliff to pledge support through the double iron grille in the visitors' room, received in turn a whispered assurance, plus the traditional cookies and convent-made bubbly white wine. Firm backing for Mother Veronica's defiant ways came from her bishop, who specifically ordered her to keep the school open, exhorted all Catholics to "support the sisters in their struggle...
...done their job: of the 29,000 Hungarians received at New Jersey's Camp Kilmer, 27,700 have been processed and sent, under sponsorship of voluntary civic and religious agencies, to their new lives in places ranging from New York City (with 1,824 resettled refugees) to San Marino, Calif, (with...