Word: 48th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flounder in shallow water. "This swell came up from behind in the water. It didn't knock me down, but it was extraordinary. I looked around and saw there weren't any boats nearby, and I said, 'Where'd that come from?' Then everything was perfectly still." On the 48th floor of the 64-story Transco Tower in Houston, Martha Carlin saw "water sloshing around in the coffee urns. Office doors were closing, and the building was in motion. I looked out the window at the trees and they were standing still, so I knew the wind wasn't blowing...
...reportedly lost 15 lbs. since September, and is said to have been treated for exhaustion and strain at a clinic for the party elite. Two weeks ago, Karpov, normally an icily precise defensive genius, began to blunder. Kasparov drove to victory in the 47th and then the 48th game. Meanwhile, he says, Soviet chess officials had begun quietly pressuring him to agree to end the match. Shortly thereafter, Campomanes appeared in Moscow, amid rumors that the Soviets, who are heavily represented in the world federation, had summoned him out of concern for Karpov's psychological health...
Following a legend, conceded Composer John T. Williams last week, "will be very difficult." Still he seems a logical choice to take the baton of the late Arthur Fiedler as conductor of the Boston Pops. A month short of his 48th birthday, Williams has written more than 50 film scores, and won Oscars for three (Fiddler on the Roof, Jaws and Star Wars). The new leader will meet his musicians at a Boston rehearsal next week, then conduct his first concert at Carnegie Hall. The parent Boston Symphony Orchestra, which depended on Fiedler's prodigious performances to keep...