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TWO ACADEMY AWARDS
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town
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SAN MARINO, Europe's
oldest and tiniest re- public, perched on the top
of 2,300-foot-high Mount Titano, plans to become a soa. Power. It wants roplonish its Treasury.
to empty
Backed by fts 15.500 citizens.
the Government has decided nationality
that ships of any
miny register under the blun and white flag of San Marino,
To handle its nautical affairs. ship- San Marino has set up ping company under Otto Danielson, of Copenhagen. Shipa which By the Bag of San Marino will receive all sorts of facilities, such as are enjoy ed by ships under the Panamn Bag.
San Marino, -perched on Mount Titatio.
There are few criminals here. The prison is often empty. A regular customer is an old drunkard, who often gets caught begging from tourists.
How do you get to San San Marino's foreign policy Marino, which covers · 15 000 is backed by an army compris. ncres, slightly smaller than ing two generals, 60 soldiers Leicester? First, you go to and 40 militiamen. Exemption Rimini, a coast resort on the from taxes and divorce have Italian side of the Adriatic. created bad relations with From there you have n 40- Italy and the Vatican. The minute bus ride to the top of Holy See cannot forget that a the mountain.
republie founded By, a. saint, the Dalmatian monk, Marino, in AD. 301, has become Italy's Reno, where wealthy, Itallens can obtain a divorce.
Er
no
There
frontier guarda, ho Curtome, no queueing to show
Up
'your passport, A large parter tells you that you have reached the jand of the charming Ban
Marincef.
But this is a very exclusive republic. To become a citizen one must either be born here of San Marines! parents, or cise have lived in the republic for more than 40 years.
Exceptions are made only alter much string-pulling.
There is a simple reason for exclusiveness--the San Marines pay no taxes.
this
Sen Marino citizenship offors, an additional, attrac- tlanto Itailane, for they can obtain divorce, which・・ Is denied them In Italy.
Without taxes, how does the Government balance its Bud- get? It exacts Customs duties and receives a yearly contri- -bution 'from Italy for. transit rights. The Italians also. pay San Marino for a pledge not to set up a radio station,
Sa
But tha little republic's greatest source of Income from stamps It even beats the Vatican in the number of its new issues.
The Marshall plan and hell- handsome copiers both have
dedicated to Issues atamp them.
Now San Marino hopes to have a money-spinning ship- ping line.
là
It is a pale pink variety of Communism that runs this
Owing fairy-like Stute. allati administration," State finances are not top healthy.
* Gambling is forbidden,, oven in the home.
NANCY
The Italian Government cannot forgive San Marino for accepting 87 big Italian firms which have act up offices there to evade taxation.
Anglo-San Marinese ometal ΟΣΟ not too good relations either. For, following an Allfed air raid en Ban Marino, the. one-room Stato department claimed £350,000 war damage" from the British and Ameri- cans. And we have done anything about it.
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The
MY:SIDE: OF LIFE:
CHAPMAN PINCHER Column
MEN'S WASHROOMS
We can clearly hear sounds while we sleep-for the post- man's knock to coincide with a dream-world crash is common In my experience. And Elllot argues that with sight completo- ly out of nction the tound- recording segment of the memory should be receptive.
TEST ON TURKEYS -
ACCORDING 10 Hol- land's PROFESSOR N. TINBERGEN the reaction of young turkeys to an aeroplane- shaped plece of cardboard de- pends on which way it is moved
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FT was during his 41st. The child was stili breathing "blue-baby" operation when they wheeled her out of
the operating theatre.
over them. that Guy's Hospital
"Ten days
later she was When moving nose-first it has walk heart surgeon, RUSSELL learning to
about
shape the the bunched-up
of BROCK was faced with his ward," writes. Brock in his case hawk and the birds instinctive- the ly scatter. But taken over tail report, just published by most difficult dilemma.
British Melical Association. first the turkeys see in it "She made an excellent re- nothing more than the harmless cavery, and has continued to do outlines of a long-necked goose,
and go on feeding.
The patient was a five-year- old girl, born with such a mal- formed circulation that she had lacked the strength to walk.
Satisled that she was safely under the anaesthelle, Brock was about to begin the delicate dissection that would widen the blood-flow to her lungs. Bul just as he held out his rubber- gloved hand to the nurse af the Instrument tray, the chill
breathing. stopped breat
of
It was the start of one those frequent, but rarely re- ported, fights for life
which
well,"
LIGHTWEIGHT
* FROM BEAK
to tall a full-,
grown robin is
I tried the experiment on my hens. They loudly objected to it either way.
NOSE FOR NOOSE
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guess
weight?
IA ita
FEOM
a wall- per-
fume US Gov-
ernment trap- pers have do- veloped
logists, led by for beavers.
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Ornitho-
Irresistible bak
Oxford,' s DI. DAVID
noted
A
strain not only the surgeon's skill but his physical endurance. Bile.
be captive With
beaver, great difcully, the LACK, who have carried out for his un- anaesthetist started artificial scores of woodland weighings, sociabi
Then the respiration,
child's report that the red-breast rarely
lity, gave them heart stopped.
scales more than three-quarters first clue to it when he jumped By all defnitions she was' of an ounce,
into
the arms of a heavily dead,
But Brock quickly in- It ta never menaced by ****
scented woman and nestled for the Jucted the heart with a power middle-age spread, Tul drug did kept the robin-chick puts on little dosh down there.
Tho after leaving home mechanical lungs working.
12 to 14 heart began to heat again. But days after shellbreak. It was 40 minutes before. tho
NIGHT CLASS anaesthetist algnalled that tho child was breathing.
TO TAKE some of the slog out of his studenta“ Pennsylvania State Col- make as many mysteries as they the worst possible shape for lego don CHARLES ELLIOT is solve comes from acoustics ex- sucli severe surgery, but to con- trying to teach them while they port PROFESSOR F. CANAC tinus it was her only chance of sleep. Words repeatedly whis- who has been studying the normal life. Brock knew that pered into the pillowed cars of. 0,000-seat alone theatre built by she could never survive such an 40 guinea-pig pupils have been the Romans near Marseilles. ordeal again.
well remembered on waking, he
* To abandon the operallon waA
temping. The patient was in lives
There was no time-to-socic-claims.-
The trappers' trouble now la how to keep their smell secret clear of the poacher's nose.
ROMAN MYSTERY
SUPPORT for the stigma that scientists
B3
Canac reports that every pil- the parents' decision. But Brock- Dr Elliot is saving his own lar, niche, and statue is shaped
and positioned exactly felt they would be willing to sleep by using a machine to do modern sound-wave theory re- take the risk if only to relieve his whispering. Called the quires for open-air acoustics. their daughter of some of the cerebrograph, it consists chiefly
Yet, according to recorded history, the
know. Romans nothing of sound waves.
pain from which she had rarely of a clock-controlled gramo
been free. So, after a mask phone, linked to a soft-pedalled muffled talk with his assistants, speaker, slipped under the sub he went ahead.
feet's pillow.
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R.A.F. digs up a skeleton
Dusseldori.
HE ghosts of dead
THE
soldiers in Rommel's
who
CHARLES
WIGHTON
scotches the myth begun by Rommel
inside
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"Business Man's Disease"
ISEASES of the arteries are
common. Ong out of every two deaths over the age of 45 is quo to heart disease, ; which is simply another way of1 ex- . pressing disease of the arteries supplying the heart.
...
This is 11 times as many as die annually of tuberculosis; it is three times the number kill- ed by cancer.
More significant still is the fact that the mortality. roto from diseases of arteries has risen by over 200-percent dur- Ing the last 30. years und
It is well established that this aliment affects individuals par- ticularly useful to the com- munity those subjected to sovero mental strain and res-
Onsibility such as business
busy professional
man and doctors,
In
the same. way that the of blood vessela. sup-
the heart reduces tha
blood to that organ, so narTOR- of arteries elsewhere has a similar result,
Ing
If the disease affects the leg
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blood channels, as is often the case, then painful cramps occur, To start with these occur only when the muscles havo, been used for a while, but soon the pain comes on after a few steps, Two types of disease - cauSO these symptoms.
The first is due to deposits of calcium making the luman nor- row
and
occurring in the elderly.
The second, known as Beur- ger's, discaso, comes-on between 40 and 55. The baale cause is not known, but strain of life' and smoking are said to be Lotent factors.
Regular alemen who have. Obviously the treatment in been at Wahn for over 12 months confirmed the figure
difficult. Whatever arteries aro affected rest is essentink">This improves the general "eircula- tion and tends to xéllevd "strain on the vessels meta .. In cases affecting the legs various exercises to improve the circulation, combined with heat andèlectrical, treatment, can be tried.
The two dead men
were Afrika Korps-men
airmen and Force headquarters in Ger friends. Both were regular Alr committed suicide rather Hanover British than go to war in the soldiers had told me: "Wahn is many, and in the Air Ministry Force men, not National Servico conscripts. The first suleide was have agree on this a suicide camp. There
duo to complicated personal Western Desert-are haunt- bean - 18 suicides - or attempted
After hours at Wohn talking problems. The second had possi post ing 600 British National suicides in the
fcw
to all ranks, from the com- bly the same explanation. The Servicemen at the main month."
manding officer to fresh re- rools of the legend are deep in RAF. Rhineland base.......at. In Servicemen's canteens and cruits, 1 believe that is the the past. There was a suicide. Wahn.
"clubs and on B.AD.R. troop Inith.
at Wahn-nearly ten trains, worried 10-year-olds in
The story of 18 suicides is" years ago. For hundreds of young men RAF, blus" on their way to fantastic," said dark, dia
arteries Then the mile-long rows of in Germany, and their parents Wahn said: "This is the kiss of tinguished Group-Captain barracks amid Rhineland woods at home in Britain, the big air death. I have been posted 10 Ayers, the camp's commanding were Rommel's first heaquar- field, ten miles from Cologne, the hell camp. Everyone sent to officer,
has become by reputo. “Ger- Whan commits suicide or goes |many's terror camp,."
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Major Problem
mad. It is the B.A.F. Belsen." Friends of Wahn airmen Have
wave
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Many drugs have been e In an alteropt to liste the permanently Those include gland extracts, tissue- extracts and the vitamin B nicotinic acid. Recent reports
that
stance alpha-
substance
tocopherol may help
Finally it may be necessary to operate when the arterial disease affects the limbs. By: taking
Sugrest à German cavalry It was Laughed
barracks, given to the Afrike Korps as a base. The British made long journeys to Dies as they watched a cricket
IRMEN
accosted at random ullt the airfield in 1945
At Wahn, Wehrmacht recruits THE Legend of Wahn" is to dorf to tell me of the "cargo
horrors, fe
match beside the 2,000-yard chosen for service. against day a major problem to high y Here are the facts.
runway where Mosquitos were the British Army of the NIG RAF.. stoft officers in' botti Germany, and London. I visited have been two suleides at landing, laughed loudly at my were put through ruelling
Wahn in the past year. Both questions. "We have all heard courses in falce tropical condi Wahn to probe the legend. occurred within a few days. the rumour of the 18 suleides." tiens. So tough was Rommel's
For · 300 miles across Gar-"That was 11 weeks ago. Official they said, "but there have been training, that many of the fair
from Hamburg and records at Wahn, at British Air only two-in April".
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