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Starting in May, Charles, whose titles include Lord of the Isles and Great Steward of Scotland, will take up a regimen that begins daily at 7 a.m. with a cold shower followed by an empty-stomach sprint around the school grounds. Along with Gordonstoun's 400 other boys, among them the scholarship sons of dockers and fishermen, he will chop wood, build pigsties, sail, climb cliffs. The staple food is boiled potatoes at lunch and supper, and the school insists on "N.E.B.M." (no eating between meals). Average Scholar Charles will probably take the classroom work in stride, for Gordonstoun...
...Cape Canaveral's Hangar "S." There, one floor below in glassed-off splendor, glistened the Mercury capsule that at midmonth is scheduled to carry the lean Marine lieutenant colonel on three orbits of the earth. As the sobersided ex-test pilot buckled down to his monastic, preflight regimen, his wife and kids decided to wait it out in Virginia. Said Anna Glenn: "We've had a wonderful Christmas - our very best. There's an awful lot to look forward to, you know...
...scrawny little fellow-5 ft. 5 in., 137 Ibs. -turned pro at 24 after licking every amateur around the Jacksonville, Ill. farm where he was raised. Recognizing his physical disadvantages. Jerry Barber patiently fitted himself for the game. He built up his wrists and shoulders with a daily regimen of weight lifting and calisthenics, spent hours exercising with a homemade contraption-a lo-lb. weight tied to a broom handle. Wherever he played for the money, he painstakingly stalked the course first, making observations and carefully noting down the pitch of every green...
...Duke University, in North Carolina, Dr. Walter Kempner, who pioneered the rigorous low-sodium regimen (as part of his famous "rice diet"), has laid down the accepted rule: "If the sodium concentration of the plain water available is greater than 20 p.p.m., distilled water should be used." Many of his patients are put on bottled water when they go home. But the brand has to be specified: some bottled spring waters are laced with salts not mentioned on the label...
...these new-style heretic hunters is being fanned by a number of antiquarians. Dean of them all is tall, gaunt Déodat Roche, 79, a former magistrate of Arques, whose lifelong dedication to spreading the Cathar gospel, organizing pilgrimages to Montségur, and following the strict vegetarian regimen of his heretic ancestors has earned him the nickname "the Cathar Bishop." More active is Sociology Professor René Nelli of the University of Toulouse ("the vicar of Catharism"), who lectures on the subject all over France and has been commissioned by the French government to collect relics and documents...