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...J.F.K. and recent revelations [Dec. 29]: I had thought he was King Arthur in the Camelot analogy. It appears that he was Sir Lancelot all along...
Screaming Ads. The theatricality may be understandable. Korda is the nephew of the famed Hungarian-born film producer Sir Alexander Korda and spent much of his youth crisscrossing Europe with his powerful and elite show-biz family. But there is another view of all the role playing. "To know Michael well is to know he doesn't have much of a center," says a colleague, "so he collects roles. He goes from being a cowboy to a pilot to a daddy...
...know I can write, and one of these days I mean to produce a good book," she announced in a letter at 22. Virginia's father was Sir Leslie Stephen, the critic and biographer, and she grasped early that she had inherited his vocation. Virginia also sensed the innovative direction of her gifts: "I am sure the facts of life-the marryings and bearings and buryings are the least important, and one acts one's drama under...
...steer that had drowned in the lake. One skeptic, interviewed on British television, speculated that the head was a shot of a scuba diver wearing his breathing apparatus backward. A London paper noted that Nessie's proposed scientific name, Nessiteras rhombopteryx, is an anagram for "monster hoax by Sir Peter S."-a possible reference to Nessie Supporter Sir Peter Scott, who co-authored the Nature article with Rines...
...example, the new chief of state-owned British Airways is Sir Frank Mc-Fadzean, the former chairman of the Shell Transport & Trading Co. Further, the nationalized industries are being encouraged to bring prices in line with production costs; the Electricity Board, a state utility monopoly, has been permitted a 40% rate hike. British Steel Corp...