Word: spartanism
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...shows scientific phenomena with a Sterno can and a toy physics kit. Fuller prepares lunch himself-usually canned soup, fruit, bread, butter and milk. The kids say grace in Russian, eat at their desks, and return their plates (scraped) to Fuller in the kitchen. If they stick to this Spartan routine through high school, Fuller is sure, colleges will shower them with "a multitude of scholarships." Exam for Parents. On Fuller's office walls are two pictures, both of Senator Barry Goldwater, who "typifies what this school stands for: individuality and self-responsibility." On Fuller's desk...
...that James is a professional, he lives by spartan rule. He is first to rise in his family, plays quietly with his toy cars until the others are awake. He practices deep into the morning, then plays with his three-year-old brother until afternoon, when he invariably demands another practice session. James's love for the drums has left him altogether drummy. When asked his name, he soberly replies: "I'm Gene Krooper...
...back home at the palace, awaits his official report card from his first term at his father's old school in Scotland, spartan Gordonstoun, where cold showers and sprints before breakfast are the rule. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 13, "was near the top in a class of 28," said Headmaster F.R.G. Chew. "Good average is the phrase-and he has settled in jolly well." The headmaster cleared up another point: the other kids call him Charles...
...pint-sized DKW, and English Ford has turned its Zephyr and Zodiac lines into luxury cars. In a curious alliance of two state-controlled companies, France's Renault and Italy's Alfa Romeo plan joint dealerships which will be able to offer the customer everything from a spartan $1,100 Renault R4 to a $20,000 custom-built Alfa sports coup...
Oakland began with a spacious, 2,000-acre campus, a fat-free academic diet, and a spartan atmosphere of no dormitories, fraternities, sororities or organized athletics (TIME, Sept. 28, 1959). It had one major drawback: serving almost entirely as a commuter college in a low-income area, it was expected to demand Harvard-level performance from poorly prepared youngsters...