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...only for the Nizam's family, but for those of all the once-great princes of India. They are shorn of their royal power, and by the end of this month, when India will officially realign its states, their last royal vestiges, excepting their personal wealth, will disappear. Last week, as the day approached, royal princes by the score journeyed into the palmed city of Mysore in custom-built Cadillacs, svelte Jaguars and private trains for a final royal fling. The occasion was the final Dashahara durbar of the fat (300 Ibs.), rich, able, music-loving Maharaja of Mysore...
...British Raj and the missionary sahibs from the Christian West, Hinduism seemed a creed outworn, soon destined to disappear. But it was just this twin invasion of commerce and Christianity, say two eminent Indian leaders, that has stirred Hinduism to new life...
...even more real problem determining Southern college application is the quality of secondary education in the South. The average level of public schools in the Deep South states such as Georgia and Mississippi is far below the national level. In the urban areas this disparity tends to disappear, but even there instruction is below the national par. Thus the student who may be inclined to go outside his area often finds that he is insufficiently prepared...
...many an embarrassed and discomfited Dutchman, wishing only that the whole ugly scandal would disappear, such words, with their apparent ring of authenticity, sounded comforting indeed. The only trouble was that in Queen Juliana's mind matters were not so neatly settled. Reading the printed reports, she seethed. Since when did a Queen of the House of Orange have to promise anything to her confidential advisers? Far from breaking with her confidante Greet Hofmans, the Queen stubbornly continued to seek out and see the faith healer and all of her group. The only change made in the royal household...
...help meet the crisis, says Handlin, the U.S. can fall back on such devices as classroom TV and the use of lay assistant teachers. But the problem will never disappear until the U.S. has raised salaries ("Teachers are the only occupational group whose real earnings have actually fallen since 1940") and changed its whole attitude toward a profession that is too often caricatured as made up of frustrated Our Miss Brookses. Meanwhile, "makeshifts" will have to do. We can only minimize the damage, maintain standards as best we can for the time being, and lay a foundation for future recovery...