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Skin-Saving.. "How a prince answers the big political question," cabled TIME Correspondent Robert Neville, "depends on whether he is a big 21-gun-salute* prince who thinks that when the British leave he can rule his own roost alone, whether he is a pro-Pakistan prince, whether he is an anti-Pakistan prince, or whether he is the type of prince who believes that Congress is going to be all-powerful in the new India and hence thinks he had better get on the Congress bandwagon...
...Throughout most of Asia, the white man is truly hated and the sky is black with chickens coming home to roost-probably blacker in Indonesia than anywhere except Indo-China. The natives' passions run away with their leaders' intellects. I am inclined to doubt whether whites and colored will work together in this generation...
...sense irreplaceable, but the current "teachers' market" has sharply increased the competition for competent young instructors. Thus it is that the University's prodigal policy as regards its instructors--requiring them to meet a "produce or-else" deadline, undervaluing their qualifications as teachers--has come home to roost, plaguing the English Department with a shortage of good teachers at the very time-when their presence is most vital...
...fiercest struggle is that between Ben and his father. Constantly defeated, at the moment when he seems finally beaten Ben ferrets out of his mother his father's guilty secret. Being enough to lynch his father, it is more than enough to break him. Ben now rules the roost...
...Home to Roost...