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LEAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission has subpoenaed the American Express Company, Shearson Lehman Brothers and Salomon Brothers as part of the inquiry into last year's illegal stock manipulation scheme involving Boyd L. Jefferies.
LEAD: George M. Aronwald, a 78-year-old hearing officer for the Parking Violations Bureau in Queens, was killed yesterday afternoon in a gangland-style shooting in a Long Island City, Queens, laundry.
LEAD: Schools Chancellor Nathan Quinones suspended a community school board in upper Manhattan yesterday, saying he could no longer permit students to be ''victims'' of the board's mismanagement.
LEAD: The first drug proved to prolong the lives of AIDS patients was given Federal approval today. Both Government and drug company officials emphasized, however, that the drug was not a cure for the fatal disorder of the immune system, which has struck 33,000 Americans.
LEAD: The Senate set the stage today for a major battle with the White House by sending President Reagan a highway bill that he has promised to veto despite its bipartisan popularity in both houses of Congress.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 18, 1987, covering March 21, 1987.
Beastie Boys
Bon Jovi
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
Paul Simon
Janet Jackson
1987Carlos Carrasco, Venezuelan baseball pitcher[â ]
Carlos Luis Carrasco, nicknamed "Cookie", is a Venezuelan-American professional baseball pitcher in the New York Yankees organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Cleveland Indians / Guardians and New York Mets. Listed at 6Â feet 4Â inches (1.93Â m) and 224 pounds (102Â kg), he throws and bats right-handed.
1987Walter L. Gordon, Canadian accountant, lawyer, and politician, 22nd Canadian Minister of Finance (born 1906)[â ]
Walter Lockhart Gordon was a Canadian accountant, businessman, politician, and writer.
1987Robert Preston, American captain, actor, and singer (born 1918)[â ]
Robert Preston Meservey was an American stage and screen actor best-known for his role as Professor Harold Hill in the 1957 musical The Music Man, for which he received the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He reprised the role in the 1962 film adaptation, and received a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor â Motion Picture Musical or Comedy nomination.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[â ]