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LEAD: THE decade was the 1970's and inflation had so warped the economy that some Americans actually hoarded pennies, because soaring copper prices had pushed the value of the copper in each coin above one cent.
LEAD: FROM REMOVING FIG LEAVES on Italian masterpieces to censoring films in Hong Kong to protecting antiquities in Israel, culture the world over provokes heated debate.
LEAD: ANYONE who has searched for an affordable apartment in New York probably has heard about rich people who live in rent-regulated buildings and pay rents that look like grocery bills.
LEAD: President Reagan, sounding an optimistic note on the possibility of reducing medium-range nuclear weapons, said today that American negotiators would ''intensify'' efforts to resolve any remaining differences with the Soviet Union on the issue in Geneva later this month.
LEAD: WHEN Mike Fratello - who says he is 5 feet 7 inches (though in a pinch could probably pass for 5-6), and is short enough to have once been turned down for a National Basketball Association head coach's job because of his height - when Mike Fratello, now the coach of the Atlanta Hawks, stands next to Tree Rollins or Kevin
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 15, 1987, covering April 19, 1987.
Beastie Boys
U2
Bon Jovi
Paul Simon
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
1987Joe Hart, English footballer[†]
Charles Joseph John Hart is an English football pundit and former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1987Maria Sharapova, Russian tennis player[†]
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova is a Russian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 21 weeks. Sharapova won 36 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including five major titles, as well as the 2004 WTA Tour Championships. She is one of ten women to achieve the Career Grand Slam in singles.
1987The Simpsons first appear as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show, first starting with "Good Night".[†]
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening and developed by Groening, James L. Brooks and Sam Simon for the Fox Broadcasting Company. It is a satirical depiction of American life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie. Set in the fictional town of Springfield, in an unspecified location in the United States, it caricatures society, Western culture, television and the human condition.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]