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...Protestant Christians, who believe that prayer should be in a language that the people understand, the use of Latin in liturgy has long been one of the lesser bars to church reunion. Many Roman Catholics also agree that there is too much Latin in the Mass; the Vatican is aswarm with requests from bishops for permission to have at least the parts of the Mass addressed to the congregation (such as the Epistle and the Gospel) read in the vernacular. But Latin, it seems, is here to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Latin Me That | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

...gutted buck on one's fender. To take care of this technicality, many trophyless hunters buy a bootleg buck for $40 or $50 from a local deerslayer, ride into town without having fired a shot. Hurley's six-block Silver Street is jammed with 56 bars, aswarm with dough-eyed girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Booze & Buckshot | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

...Victorian house on Chicago's North State Street, complete from the half-acre bed to the woo grotto. No wonder its owner says "Life is beautiful." He is Hugh Marston Hefner, 34, editor and publisher of Playboy Magazine, a sort of editorial whee, whose candy castle-aswarm with Playboy's celebrated center-spread Playmates-symbolizes the expansion of his young empire into show business. Scarcely a year in operation, Hefner's members-only Playboy key club has become the largest employer of entertainment talent in Chicago and is the prototype of more girl-filled clubs to follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Playgrounds: The Boss of Taste City | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...made progress in preventing the Syrians from slipping farther into the Soviet orbit, but the socalled "northern region" of the U.A.R. remains infiltrated by Communists to an alarming degree. An estimated 1,000 Soviet technicians, military advisers and embassy personnel are stationed in Syria; the area is aswarm with "technical" missions of bridge builders, oil surveyors and "fertilizer experts." Syria is dependent on Russia for $170 million of its $600 million development program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SYRIA: Restless Province | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

Last week the biggest English-language library in any non-English-speaking country was aswarm with Parisians back in town from their annual August exodus. Started with the collection set up by the American Library Association for the doughboys of World War I, the library now has some 100,000 books, is largely supported by a paying membership of 3,000 (60% Frenchmen). The library managed to stay open during the German occupation of World War II, is now so efficient that many French graduate students prefer its accessible shelves to the musty stacks of Paris libraries. It recently provided...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: America in Paris | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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