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...subject of the disagreement at Buckingham Palace was: What school should 13-year-old Prince Charles attend? Queen Elizabeth wanted Eton, where Charles would wear a swallowtail coat, and mix mainly with sons of U.K.'s uppermost crust. Father Philip held out for Scotland's rugged Gordonstoun, his own old school, which among other goals aims to "free the sons of the rich and powerful from the enervating sense of privilege." Last week the palace announced the choice: Gordonstoun...
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...
...Richwick-priggish, prudish bachelor that he is-perseveres. He lets it be known that she is the mentally retarded daughter of a sister in Scotland and engages a nurse for her who has specialized in backward children. Richwick, who narrates the story, and Mrs. Burnley, the nanny, settle down to their labor of love: turning a vixen into a girl...
...subject from A to Z (the last entry stops at Y), or from Lapland to Patagonia (it mostly treats Britain, the U.S. and Europe), or from hokus to strychnine (it wholly neglects weapons and poisons), its range is considerable, its writing often sprightly. Edited by a former chief of Scotland Yard, with contributors (almost all English) extending from Ian Fleming and J. Edgar Hoover to Alan Moorehead and Rebecca West, it boils down a huge vatful of material without losing too much of the original felonious flavor...
...knows no law." It corrects popular misconceptions: Bertillon, far from creating fingerprint identifications, was skeptical of their value. It shows how greatly writers can misconceive: Conan Doyle protested that developing character in detective stories could only endanger the plot. Perhaps its most unforgettable statement is a sentence concerning Scotland's High Court of Justiciary. "The maximum penalty which may be imposed in that court," says the article, "is death...