Word: lewes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week's rendezvous they managed to catch 19 long shots of the outer moon, Deimos, and two of Phobos. In the course of the mission, scientists hope for much closer shots that will actually show surface features of these tiny bodies, which are so small (only a lew miles in diameter) that they appear as mere dots in earthbound telescopes. Closeup photographs of Phobos and Deimos (named after the sons of Mars, the Roman god of war) could finally put to rest the imaginative theory of Soviet Astrophysicist I.S. Shklovskii. In an attempt to explain certain peculiarities...
There are three things that every Englishman seems to have: a pet, an umbrella and a Lew Grade story. As Britain's most prominent show-business entrepreneur, jowly, Goldwynesque Lew Grade enjoys a following that is not so much doting as anecdoting. His custom-made, 7¾-in. Cuban cigars are an indispensable prop of cartoonists. His multimillion-dollar deals get him lampooned as "Low Greed" in the satirical magazine Private Eye. He even has his own favorite story about himself. It concerns a little girl who asked him if he knew what two and two make. "Buying...
...Lew-he was knighted in 1969-is chief executive and principal voting shareholder of Associated Television Corporation Ltd. (ATV), the largest of the 15 regional firms that make up Britain's commercial TV network. ATV originates 25% of the network's nationwide programming. Much of ATV's $95 million annual business comes from other ventures as well, including records, music publishing (copyrights on most of the Beatles' hit songs), a theater chain, toys and bowling alleys. Last week in London, after ATV directors reported record 1970-71 profits of $10.4 million after taxes, Chairman Lord Renwick...
Dictatorship and Delicatessen. Sir Lew's orbit extends far beyond Britain. He was one of the first to see the potential in filmed TV programs-as opposed to live ones-shot relatively cheaply in Britain and syndicated around the world. His first production, the 1954 series Robin Hood, is still being rerun in Poland, Kuwait, New Zealand and many other countries. Over the years, he has sold more than 100,000 hours of programming to 104 countries-"everything but the weather forecast," he told TIME Correspondent Christopher Porterfield. Among his recent exports to the U.S. are the Tom Jones...
...managed by Sir Lew, ATV falls somewhere between a benevolent dictatorship and a family delicatessen. "There are two Lew Grades-the patriarch and the businessman," says one of his executives. "Ask for ?500 because of some personal crisis, and it's yours. Ask for ?500 extra on a budget-not a chance." Grade chooses new programs largely on instinct. His motto: "My tastes are the average person's tastes." After he approves a project-something he often does on the basis of a one-page description-he maintains that his creative staffers have a completely free hand. "Then...