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Sixteen hundred and forty-eight years ago, the Dalmatian stonecutter Marinus arrived on the rocky slopes of Mount Titano, in central Italy, drove out the fat brown bears who inhabited the mountain, and founded the republic now known as San Marino. To lead a counterattack against Marinus, the story goes, the ursine exiles selected a huge black bear, who was actually Satan in disguise. Marinus lured the devil bear to the edge of a precipice and thrust a wooden cross in his face. The evil one went up in sulphurous smoke...
Last week the Catholic bishops of the Italian dioceses of Rimini and Montefalco, who supervise the spiritual welfare of the world's oldest and smallest republic (38 sq. mi.; pop. 12,000), in a pastoral letter called on St. Marinus to combat Beelzebub's latest manifestation-a Communist-sponsored gambling casino...
Dimitrov was acquitted (but still held by the Nazis); his half-witted fellow defendant, Marinus van der Lubbe, was beheaded. A year later, Dimitrov was finally released to Russia, in exchange for some German spies the Russians had caught...
...famous barber is Marinus van Rooijen, 49, who attributes his success to a secret fluid. His first patient was a young farmer named Klaas Tolner, who now has three inches of gleaming blond hair on his once egg-bald pate. "It's been cut three times already," Klaas grinned last week. "Now the girls will look at me again...
...stone houses. Loudspeakers began to bray through the narrow streets. Shrilled one black-shawled peasant woman: "Why don't they both just jump off a cliff and give us some peace!" The People's Alliance, which had picked for its emblem the country's founder, Saint Marinus (who once bridled and saddled a big brown bear), shouted for its slogan "Vote for Long Beard (San Marino), not for Big Whiskers (Stalin...