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DIED. Max Ascoli, 79, educator, author and editor of the Reporter, a distinguished but now defunct fortnightly journal of ideas; in Manhattan. An Italian antiFascist, Ascoli was jailed briefly under Benito Mussolini's regime and immigrated to the U.S. in 1931. The Reporter, which he founded in 1949, ran vigorous stories criticizing the China lobby, McCarthyism and governmental misuse of wiretapping. As staunchly anti-Communist as he was antiFascist, Ascoli supported the growing U.S. involvement in Viet Nam during the '60s, thereby alienating many liberal readers and leading to the demise of his magazine...
...months the carabinieri had been keeping an eagle eye on a padlocked wine cellar in the Adriatic seaport of Porto d'Ascoli. In it were 3,400,000 quarts of red wine stored in vats sealed by the police. The wine, an adulterated brew made of such confections as tar acid, ammonia, glycerin, citric acid, a sludge taken from the bottom of banana boats, and, of course, alcohol, was Exhibit A in a continuing case against 260 defendants charged with selling the grapeless vino throughout Italy. Oddly enough, those who sampled the stuff swore it tasted exactly like ordinary...
After a search ranging from the River Po to the Bay of Naples, the carabinieri found their culprit right at home in Porto d'Ascoli. He was Fabbio Lanciotti, owner of a large winery and one of the defendants in the wine trial. Lanciotti had been able to make off with Exhibit A against him because the police had had the lack of foresight to store the impounded wine in Lanciotti's own wine cellar (the biggest in town). While free on bail, Lanciotti had been given permission to go on producing wine and had quietly siphoned...
...special food-and-wine-standards police squad that quickly became known as "the Bacchus police." Last week, in the biggest Italian trial in decades, 174 men and women were charged with adulterating or faking wine. Heading the list of accused in the crammed courthouse of Ascoli Piceno on the Adriatic coast was Bruno Ferrari, 65, boss of the Casa Vinicola Ferrari, largest of seven wine companies involved in the case...
Various publishing houses offered to buy the Reporter and keep it going, but Ascoli considered it too much of a "one-man show" to sell it. He says that "My answer to them was: Is your daughter for sale?" He even hopes to keep the copyright of the name after the magazine folds. The Reporter, however, will not completely disappear from view. "I'm not abandoning ship," insists Ascoli. Two topnotch reporters, Meg Greenfield and Denis Warner, will be transferred to Harper's magazine, which is striving energetically to keep up with the times. Ascoli will contribute...