Word: fourteen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whose Foundation Trilogy centers on a Galactic Empire and ( interplanetary voyages is terrified of heights. He has flown only once: "It was in the Army, and to refuse meant a court-martial." Acrophobia has its drawbacks: he does not visit foreign cities, or even many domestic ones. Fourteen honorary degrees have come his way; he has turned down many others because he hates to travel to any college or university beyond a 400-mile limit from New York City. But this unwillingness to venture far from the word processor also gives the explainaholic a few benefits: more work hours...
...first race, the Club Singles, is slated for 8:40 a.m. Fourteen races and seven hours later, the Championship Eights event will close out the day's schedule...
...Fourteen lettermen--including nine starters--return from the 1987 squad (14-1-3) that finished with an undefeated regular-season record, an Ivy League title, a New England championship and a trip to the NCAA Final Four...
...biggest thing to hit Bishopville (pop. 3,500) since Hometown Boy Felix ("Doc") Blanchard left in the 1940s and became an All- American fullback at West Point. Hunters with shotguns combed the swamp, and a local radio station offered a million-dollar reward for the creature's capture. Fourteen-inch footprints appeared on a dusty road; Sheriff Liston Truesdale intends to send plaster casts to the FBI, eventually. He may also ask Davis to take a polygraph. But no one is in much of a hurry to solve this mystery. "I hope they never catch him," said Rhonda Knight...
...appeal only to those with nostalgia for buzz bombs. In the wings: mostly revivals, including Can-Can and Brigadoon. Bemoans Producer Cameron Mackintosh (The Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables): "It's Mausoleum Alley here." In part, the West End is the ironic victim of its own past successes. Fourteen shows now running in London have been playing for a year or more, and ten of those have already been seen on Broadway. Cuts in government funding have made even the two big subsidized troupes, the National Theater and Royal Shakespeare Company, more eager to spin off shows into long...