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LEAD: The Flyers were not willing to claim much credit tonight for their victory in this, the inaugural game of the Patrick Division championship, but Philadelphia was agreeable about accepting a 1-0 series edge after defeating the Islanders, 4-2.
LEAD: For a while, pot bellies were on the run. The wise guys at the health spas started passing the word that the last few pot bellies in the suburbs had been sighted and were about to be eradicated. Decent, hard-working men who had moved out here specifically to drink beer by the pitcher and grow a belly suddenly felt ashamed, as their bellies lost prestige.
LEAD: Researchers examining new data on the brain believe they have discovered one physiological basis for the diminished anxiety that has often been documented among people in their forties and fifties: the loss of cells in a brain center that modulates anxiety.
LEAD: When the Knicks' season ended three days ago, it was clear that dramatic changes were needed to reverse the team's failing fortunes. Yesterday afternoon, the changes began at the top. In the boldest move of Madison Square Garden's new management regime, Scotty Stirling, the Knicks' general manager, was dismissed, and it was announced that Bob
LEAD: When Harvey Hockman moved into the Stuyvesant Town development in 1949, he was the first tenant in a building that soon filled up with other ex-G.I.'s and their wives. Mr. Hockman later got a new apartment in the development, and World War II veterans soon became the minority. But not much else changed in his corner of Manhattan on the East
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 15, 1987, covering April 21, 1987.
Beastie Boys
U2
Bon Jovi
Paul Simon
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
1987Gustav Bergmann, Austrian-American philosopher from the Vienna Circle (born 1906)[†]
Gustav Bergmann was an Austrian-American philosopher. He studied at the University of Vienna and was a member of the Vienna Circle. Bergmann was influenced by the philosophers Moritz Schlick, Friedrich Waismann, and Rudolf Carnap, who were members of the Circle. In the United States, he was a professor of philosophy and psychology at the University of Iowa.
1987The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people.[†]
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam was a Tamil militant organization, that was based in the northern and eastern Sri Lanka. The LTTE fought to create an independent Tamil state called Tamil Eelam in the northeast of the island in response to violent persecution and discriminatory policies against Sri Lankan Tamils by the Sinhalese-dominated Sri Lankan Government.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]