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...India. But there was consolation for Nehru and his Congress Party in the fact that in the new state of Bombay, the Marathas stand solidly for Congress, giving Nehru a statewide majority. What the demonstration underlined for Nehru, however. was the real challenge of India's thousands of high-school and university students. Frustrated, their future inhibited, by India's mounting unemployment, they dabble in politics for lack of other preoccupations, are easy prey for anyone who wants to exploit their eagerness to participate in a new India in which they have yet to find their place...
...many themes that U.S. educators have sounded since the war, few have commanded quite as much attention as: How can the nation make sure that its brightest high-school students will go on to college? Last year the U.S. got one answer with the formation of the most ambitious, privately supported scholarship program in history. Last week, from its headquarters in Evanston, Ill., the National Merit Scholarship Corp. announced the names of its first winners-the 556 members of the new elite who now bear the title National Merit Scholars...
...prove his point, Bender was on the road last week as he had been for months before. One day started at 8:30 a.m., took Bender through seven counties, meeting with local Republican leaders, answering questions at high-school assemblies, bouncing into stores, banks, barbershops and courthouses to invite the occupants out to hear him speak on street corners. At every country store with a few cars parked outside, he stopped, entered, shook hands all around, and said: "I'm U.S. Senator Bender. I happen to be touring in your neighborhood and stopped by to say hello...
...when audiences went sour on all the high-flown words, Operettist Rudolf Friml sweetened them up with some pleasant, sugary music. The Vagabond King ran for 511 performances on Broadway, and had every high-school tenor in the country gargling such sentimental favorites as Only a Rose, Someday and The Vagabond Song. Hollywood made a movie of the musical in 1930-not to mention two film versions of the McCarthy play in 1920 and 1938-and now the poor poet's corpse has been dug up once again...
Under all these conditions, some 1,300 boys and girls fled to West Berlin last fall; most of them enrolled for nine-month high-school refresher courses, then entered universities or technical schools. This fall ,he number of education immigrants will Drobably be even larger...