Supermodel Margaux Hemingway can spot a good makeup job--even in the valley of the Amazon. "I'd rather be made up with this than with mascara and all," she joked about the berry paint used by the local Makiritare Indians. Margaux and her father Jack Hemingway, eldest son of Ernest and an ex-stockbroker, spent 15 days in Venezuela to co-star in an upcoming ABC documentary about the people and wildlife in the jungle. "I was the first white woman in the Indian camp," she says. "They wanted to touch my breasts to prove I wasn't a man." They did--and sure enough, she wasn't.

"I know that I have destiny," says Preacher Garner Ted Armstrong. But does he have a following? "Disfellowshiped" from the Worldwide Church of God by his father, Herbert Armstrong, 86, Garner Ted, 48, has organized his own Church of God International. At his first sermon in Tyler, Texas, he was all Christian charity and humility to his 200 listeners: "I don't have a bad attitude toward my father any more at all. I realize that he's doing what he feels he has to do --spank his boy. And I want to take every punishment that I need to and God wants me to have."

Harvard hates America. That is the belief of John LeBoutillier, class of '76--and also the title of his book, which will be published in the fall. Harvard, according to LeBoutillier, harbors "a bunch of liberal hypocrites bent on destroying the very system which allows them to live so comfortably." The college, in his view, is turning out well-trained technocrats "woefully short on conscience." Little wonder that LeBoutillier's publisher, Gateway Editions Ltd., sent the book to William Buckley Jr., 52, whose God and Man at Yale, written when he was 24, attacked the faculty biases of his day. Buckley's reaction to Harvard Hates America was conservative and somewhat self-congratulatory: "The book is in a distinguished tradition."

Britannia may no longer rule the waves, but Prince Charles is giving it a go. The sea-loving Prince of Wales has scuba dived, handled a racing sloop and skippered a minesweeper. For his most recent aquatic adventure, Charles, 29, tried wind surfing off the chilly Isle of Wight. Barefooted, he tried to balance on a sailing surfboard but landed again and again in the drink. What upset the royal balance? Harrumphed a British surfing expert: "On a bad day even the Prince of England doesn't stand a chance in hell of staying up."

Acting Coach Lee Strasberg believes in practicing what he teaches. His last film appearance was in The Cassandra Crossing, and now Strasberg, 76, is co-starring with Ruth Gordon, 81, in Boardwalk. As an elderly Jewish man who runs a cafeteria in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach, he is tormented by rowdy youth gangs. "Typewise," says Strasberg, the part is wrong for him. "I'm essentially intellectual, sensitive or scientifically oriented, or whatever you call it," he reflects. Among his dream roles: Kissinger, Einstein and Freud.

On the Record

Sir Ralph Richardson, British actor, on being in a hit play: "You've got to perform the role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator. You go mad."

Captain James Lovell Jr., president of a telecommunications company, on his days as an astronaut: "I didn't have to worry about the profit motive on Gemini or Apollo."

Dick Gregory, comedian, after Providence Mayor Vincent Cianci picked up Gregory's handkerchief: "That's the closest you white folk have ever come to picking cotton."

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