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...Hugh M. Hefner, 37, who was asleep in his humble 40-room pad on Chicago's North Side one afternoon earlier this month when four men from the vice squad came calling. A brass plaque on the front door carries the Latin legend "Si non oscillas noli tintinnare"-"If you don't swing, don't ring"-but the cops rang anyway and swung Hefner off to be booked on charges of publishing and selling an obscene magazine...
...fiscal frustrations of the priestly life in the context of Italy's new prosperity are the main cause of the vocation gap. As Don Luigi Noli, who is in charge of vocations for the Genoa diocese, puts it: "Young people today think they know how to live. Before they're 18 they expect to earn 100,000 lire [$160] a month. How can you persuade them to become priests...
...Minime,' respondit vox; deinde subiunxit: 'Noli tam magna voce clamare. Jam in primo te clarissime audivi...
Joci debiles dicis? Jocos carpere vel noli nostros, vel tuos proprios ede recteque redde...
Whitney Darrow's president will be ready. He will press a button in his suit, blink his eyes once or twice, turn to his smiling predecessor and say, "Noli timere, o vir Harvardiensis, ad astra per aspera...