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Growing Up. The Reporter's editor, publisher and financial angel is scholarly, Italian-born Max Ascoli, 50, whose opposition to Mussolini, while teaching political philosophy at an Italian university, forced him to leave Italy for the U.S. in 1931. Ascoli has since taught at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, recently wrote a book of political philosophy, The Power of Freedom...
...tough Dominican Exile Miguel Angel Ramirez, who had led his ragtag Legion in the fighting that put Figueres in power just a year before, was bitter: "The ticos [Costa Ricans] have our guns now. They have no need for them now, so they've put them away in a damp cellar to corrode. That's the way they feel about...
...graduate in law and philosophy of the University of Salamanca, he gave up his law practice in Madrid to devote full time to Catholic activities and was soon recognized as leader of the Catholic party in Spain. In 1935, just a few months before the Civil War began, Angel Herrera decided, at 48, to become a priest...
...Pernicious" School. Ordained in 1940, after a shortened course of studies, Father Herrera was appointed assistant pastor in one of the poorest sections of Santander. Here Don Angel, as his parishioners called him, saw at once how desperately Spain needed a socially conscious clergy. But though he did not fear to tread on this dangerous ground, Don Angel knew too much to rush in. Instead, he formed a small club called the Casa Sacerdotal. Priests came to the club, ostensibly to prepare their Sunday sermons. Actually they discussed world problems in terms of the most advanced Catholic social thinking...
Though he had done little to attract attention, Angel Herrera is not the kind of man to escape it. In 1947, he was handed one of the toughest church appointments in Spain: he was named bishop of Málaga...