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LEAD: New orders for American-made machine tools rebounded significantly in May, jumping 44.4 percent, to $188.1 million, from April, according to a report scheduled to be released today by the National Machine Tool Builders' Association.
LEAD: Nearly a generation after American technology companies unleashed new computers, telecommunications gear and electronic equipment, executives and employees are discovering that the sophisticated machines in many cases have been hampering their work.
LEAD: John Cardinal O'Connor called yesterday for Roman Catholics and Jews to join together at a prayer service in New York to heal divisions caused by the meeting of Pope John Paul II with President Kurt Waldheim of Austria.
LEAD: There were letters about scuffed baseballs and there was a warning about scuffed baseballs, and there was anger about the letters and the warning about scuffed baseballs. But there were no scuffed baseballs at Yankee Stadium yesterday - at least no baseballs that were scuffed by Rick Rhoden. Maybe there should have been, because some of the baseballs thrown by Rhoden were not effective, and the Boston Red Sox beat the
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 24, 1987, covering June 29, 1987.
Whitney Houston
Motley Crue
U2
Whitesnake
Bon Jovi
1987Vincent van Gogh's painting, the Le Pont de Trinquetaille, is bought for $20.4 million at an auction in London, England.[†]
Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he created approximately 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. His oeuvre includes landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and self-portraits, most of which are characterised by bold colours and dramatic brushwork that contributed to the rise of expressionism in modern art. Van Gogh's work was only beginning to gain critical attention before he died from a self-inflicted gunshot at age 37. During his lifetime, only one of Van Gogh's paintings, The Red Vineyard, was sold.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]