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...Marino, the 38-square-mile republic which sits on three prongs of the Apennines in northeastern Italy, is the only country outside the Iron Curtain that has a Red government. A coalition of Communists (17) and Nenni Socialists (14) rules the country against a parliamentary opposition of Demo-Christians (26) and Neo-Fascists (3). The Communist coalition, which won by only 139 votes in 1951, has done its best to make of San Marino a showpiece of Socialist effort. It has built roads, houses, hotels; it has eliminated unemployment, established old-age pensions and given women civic rights...
...voting trick that put the Communists where they are in San Marino arises from the fact that, of San Marino's 6,700 eligible male voters, some 1,700 live out of the country, mostly as migrant laborers. By paying round-trip fares for many of these expatriates at election time, the Communists rounded up enough votes to swing into power...
Married. Dorothy Kirsten, 39, Metropolitan Opera soprano; and Dr. John Douglas French, 44, neurosurgeon at Long Beach Veterans Administration Hospital; she for the third time, he for the first; in San Marino, Calif...
...DeRIDDER San Marino, Calif...
Robert A. Albert '55 of Eliot House and Boston has been elected president of the University Rugby Club. Other new officers include: Sherwood L. Simpson, a first year Business School student, of San Marino, Calif, vice-president; Nathaniel K. Cooke '55 of Leverett House and New Haven, treasurer; and Arthur W. Ticknor '56 of Dunster House and Englewood, N.J., treasurer...