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...voters of Little Rock (pop. 126,300) took a lot of starch out of Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus' fight against school integration last month when they washed three Faubusites out of the school board in a recall election (TIME, June 8). Last week a three-judge federal court got on with the job by holding unconstitutional the Faubus-designed state laws that empowered Faubus to lock all four city high schools (2,900 white pupils, 750 Negroes) for the 1958-59 school year and transfer some of their funds to a private school for whites only. By reminding...
Elizabeth is often separated from her husband, Prince Philip. In paying his own Commonwealth calls, he has circumnavigated the globe three times. Her ten-year-old son, Prince Charles (who many of her subjects wish would get his hair cut), is usually at boarding school; her eight-year-old daughter, Princess Anne (who some critics claim is spoiled), is ordinarily seen by the Queen but twice...
...BRITISH SCHOOLING. Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dras Bandaranaike was a fellow student of Anthony Eden at Oxford; India's Nehru and the King of Buganda went to Cambridge. Pakistan's boss, General Mohammed Ayub Khan, was trained at Sandhurst, Britain's West Point, as was India's Chief of Staff, General Thimmaya. Every fourth cadet on parade at Sandhurst is dark-skinned. Nyasaland's rabble-rousing Dr. Hastings Banda got his postgraduate medical education at Edinburgh, Kenya's Tom Mboya went to Oxford, Ghana's Nkrumah to the London...
...degree from almost any accredited Commonwealth school is acceptable to all others. Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand have dovetailed their old-age pension plans, medical and unemployment benefits so as to make them interchangeable. Even Eire and Burma, which left the Commonwealth, are elliptically described as "not foreign countries." The tradition of the dignity of the individual seems to pay off. In not a single Commonwealth country is there a major Communist Party of importance or prestige...
Patricia is stunned that death has resulted from her innocent game. Disillusioned, she goes off to school, presumably to lose forever in civilization her unique communion with simple beasts...