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LEAD: An international banking group headed by the First National Bank of Chicago and the Royal Bank of Canada has joined Shearson Lehman Brothers in raising $2 billion in cash to finance the tender offer for Burlington Industries, documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission disclosed yesterday.
LEAD: JUST by crossing your arms, you can observe one of humankind's most useful techniques - as ubiquitous as the wheel, as basic as roots and as widespread as language. It is known as interlacing, and it's the subject of the first theme show in the new quarters of the American Craft Museum at 40 West 53d Street (through July 17).
LEAD: Three of Canada's top gold-mining companies agreed in principle today to a merger that would create North America's biggest gold mining company.
LEAD: For 35 minutes yesterday morning, Cynthia Anthony lectured 17 welfare recipients on the benefits of working.
LEAD: Excise taxes have emerged as the only palatable option that Congressional tax writers see to raise $18 billion in new revenue to meet the 1988 budget target. Such a move would confront motorists, smokers, drinkers and telephone users with the steepest rise in Federal excise taxes ever.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 6, 1987, covering May 7, 1987.
U2
Beastie Boys
Bon Jovi
Poison
Paul Simon
1987Aidy Bryant, American actress and comedian[†]
Aidy Bryant is an American actress and comedian. Bryant is most notable for being a cast member on the NBC late-night sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live for ten seasons, joining the show for its 38th season in 2012, and leaving at the end of its 47th season in 2022. For her work on the series she was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards, including two nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
1987Mark Reynolds, Scottish footballer[†]
Mark Reynolds is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Highland League club Banks o' Dee. He began his career at Motherwell and has also played for Sheffield Wednesday, Aberdeen, Dundee United and Cove Rangers.
1987Colin Blakely, Northern Irish actor (born 1930)[†]
Colin George Edward Blakely was a Northern Irish stage and screen actor. He was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in Sidney Lumet's Equus (1977), and was nominated twice for a Best Actor in Television. He was also an Olivier Award nominee.
1987Paul Popham, American soldier and activist, co-founded Gay Men's Health Crisis (born 1941)[†]
Paul Graham Popham was an American gay rights activist who was a founder of the Gay Men's Health Crisis and served as its president from 1981 until 1985. He also helped found and was chairman of the AIDS Action Council, a lobbying organization in Washington. He was the basis for the character of Bruce Niles in Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, which was one of the first plays to address the HIV/AIDS crisis.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]