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With its crenelated walls and towers, San Marino perches on a mountaintop in northern Italy like some displaced relic of the Middle Ages. The world's oldest and smallest (23 square miles) republic, it was reputedly founded around A.D. 300 by Saint Marinus of Dalmatia as a refuge for persecuted Christians, has survived as a curious, isolated island in time amidst Italy's sweeping political tides. But last week the harsh forces of the 20th century clashed noisily in its cobbled streets...
...Benedictine Brother Marinus, 41, of St. Paul's Abbey, Newton, N.J., received the Korean Order of Military Merit Ulchi with Gold Star from the Korean ambassador at a ceremony in Washington, and reminisced about how he won it. Five years ago, as Captain Leonard P. LaRue of the S.S. Meredith Victory, he was freighting supplies to Korea. "The once fine city of Hungnam was gasping in its death throes. Five unshaven Army colonels came aboard. 'Captain, we need your assistance,' one said. 'Thousands of men, women and children are here. We have to get them...
Though it threw him flat against the current of West German opinion, Konrad Adenauer knew that the dream of EDC was doomed unless Germany made concessions to France over the Saar. He agreed to accept "as a basis for discussion" a plan drafted by a Netherlands Socialist lawyer named Marinus van der Goes van Naters. Its essentials...
...Hinds, Richard M. Hoffman, Frederick S. Horween, Peter W. Kenney, Richard J. Koch, John B. Lynch, Jr., George L. MacDonald, Jr., William T. Maloney, Robert N. Margolis, Leon F. Markoff, Jerry R. Marsh, Stannard B. Pfahl Jr., Robert E. Richter, David M. Silverman, Irvin W. Templeton, Roger H. Vaglia, Marinus G. K. Van Gessel, Erwin F. Vonderlage Jr., Frank H. White, Robert H. Zuege, Marcus Schoenfeld...
...French and Marinus "Dutch" Von Gessel, both victims of early season injuries, worked out without pads again...