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The passing French photographer did a double take. There, dressed in checkered sport coat and dark slacks, and looking unfamiliar out of his Air Force blue, sat NATO's retiring Supreme Allied Commander Europe, General Lauris Norstad, 55, taking his ease at a small café in tiny Marnes-la-Coquette near his French headquarters for twelve years. The youthful-looking general, who is quitting as of Nov. 1 due partly to a heart condition, has been a military nomad so long that he has no home of his own. He has not decided what to do—after the first rush of fishing and golf—or even where to live.
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The new boy, 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.
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The first flyer to break the sound barrier in level flight, back in 1947 in the old Bell X-1, Air Force Colonel Charles ("Chuck") Yeager, 39, assumed command of a new U.S.A.F. school to teach latter-day rocket jockeys "everything they need to know about being astronauts." As first boss of the Aerospace Research Pilot School at California's Edwards Air Force Base, Yeager expects to help outdate himself: "By next year we'll be running 32 students through in a single class."