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With Permanent Guard Sergeant Anthony Speed of Scotland Yard installed in a room across the hall, Charles plunged into a cram course in Welsh language and history. He made his own bed, carried his own cafeteria tray, and began receiving sweaters knitted for him by the dames of Aberystwyth. He also found time to surf, squash and perform some princely duties...
ASSOCIATE Editor David B. Tinnin spent three weeks last month traveling through Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union before tackling the job of writing this week's cover story on the state of world Communism. Tinnin's tour amounted to a cram course in the style and strains of life in the East bloc. To his surprise, the biggest payoff came during a cocktail party in Bucharest. There he overheard a Communist official say that copies of a detailed secret document spelling out the agenda for the summit meeting in Moscow had been sent to party central committees...
Nightclubs are Fielding's personal bête noire. "I despise them," he says. "They are all the same, the same smoky clips, the same B-girls, the same tired shows and the same phony booze." To get it over with, he tries to cram as many nightclub visits into one evening...
...Naomi Sims, who grew up in the heart of Pittsburgh, was making her first trip to Europe. She was determined to turn the voyage into a cram course on classical civilizations...
These cordial gentlemen are members of three programs which run for approximately 13 week which are designed as "cram courses" for business and labor leaders...