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LEAD: WHEN Harcourt Brace Jovanovich bought California's oldest aquatic park last December, admirers of Marineland hoped that its past glories might soon be restored. At the time of the purchase, the Florida-based conglomerate said it had no plans to close the 33-year-old oceanarium, even though it was run-down and barely breaking even.
LEAD: The Condit House has a lot going for it. The three-story, Federal-style structure in West Orange, N.J., thought to be built in 1821, has four marble fireplaces, hand-carved woodwork, a fieldstone foundation and wavy window panes. ''But it has been bastardized,'' said Richard Polton, a developer specializing in historic restoration, referring to the white vinyl siding that now sheathes the original scallop-edged clapboards.
LEAD: HE was so large and so strong and his feats were so outlandish that he wouldn't be nicknamed for anything so mundane as a mere world, or planet, or star. He was named for an entire constellation. He was the Big Dipper.
LEAD: THE first legislative hearing on Governor Kean's proposed Clean Ocean Authority elicited few new specifics and appeared to portend a lengthy debate that some environmentalists fear could divert attention from the very problems the agency is intended to solve.
LEAD: FOR $161 a month, Ralph J. Calise has an apartment at 448 Amsterdam Avenue in Manhattan as big as a $2,400-a-month storefront four floors below.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 25, 1987, covering March 1, 1987.
Bon Jovi
Beastie Boys
Cinderella
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
The Georgia Satellites
1987Kesha, American singer-songwriter and actress[†]
Kesha Rose Sebert, formerly stylized as Ke$ha, is an American singer and songwriter. Her first major success came in 2009 when she was featured on rapper Flo Rida's number-one single, "Right Round".
1987Kyle O'Reilly, Canadian professional wrestler[†]
Kyle Richard Thomas Greenwood, better known by his ring name Kyle O'Reilly, is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a member of The Paragon. He is also known for working in Ring of Honor (ROH) from 2009 to 2017, and WWE from 2017 to 2021, using the same ring name in both companies. He is a record three-time NXT Tag Team Champion, and was a founding member of The Undisputed Era.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]