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LEAD: Closing the books on one of the best quarters ever for Detroit's automobile makers, the Ford Motor Company today reported a 38.9 percent rise in earnings, while the General Motors Corporation posted a 3.9 percent decline.
LEAD: He is, by nature and training, a placid man who seldom raises his voice and almost never loses control of his emotions. As an academic and a labor negotiator, George P. Shultz learned to study the record deliberately, reach a conclusion and then, almost diffidently, try to persuade others to share his judgment.
LEAD: ALMOST exactly one year ago, Midori, a Japanese-born, Juilliard-trained, 14-year-old violinist, dazzled a Tanglewood Festival audience by overcoming not one but two broken E strings and tossing off what was by all accounts a thrilling performance of Leonard Bernstein's Serenade. Since then, increased curiosity about prodigiously gifted musicians has focused attention on other youngsters forging careers.
LEAD: Since taking the helm of the Thomson Group five years ago, Alain Gomez has been dramatically reorganizing France's largest electronics company, determined to turn Thomson into a power capable of taking on the Japanese and other East Asian competitors.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 22, 1987, covering July 24, 1987.
Whitney Houston
U2
Motley Crue
Whitesnake
Heart
1987Nathan Gerbe, American ice hockey player[†]
Nathan David Gerbe is an American former professional ice hockey player. Selected by the Buffalo Sabres in the fifth round of the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, Gerbe played for the Sabres, Carolina Hurricanes and Columbus Blue Jackets during his National Hockey League (NHL) career. At 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m) tall, Gerbe is the second shortest skater in NHL history, next to the shortest player in NHL history behind goaltender Roy Worters.
1987Zack Sabre Jr., English wrestler[†]
Lucas James Uggles Eatwell, known by his ring name Zack Sabre Jr. and its abbreviated form ZSJ, is an English-born professional wrestler. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW). In NJPW, he is the second and current leader of the group The Mighty Don't Kneel (TMDK) and is a former two-time and inaugural NJPW World Television Champion and former IWGP World Heavyweight Champion. He also makes sporadic appearances for partner promotion All Elite Wrestling (AEW) and its sister promotion Ring of Honor (ROH).
1987Mara Wilson, American actress[†]
Mara Elizabeth Wilson is an American actress. As a child, she played Natalie Hillard in the film Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) and went on to play Susan Walker in Miracle on 34th Street (1994), the title character in Matilda (1996), and Annabel Greening in A Simple Wish (1997). Following her role as Lily in Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000), Wilson took a 12-year hiatus from acting to focus on writing. She returned to acting in 2012 and has predominantly worked in web series.
1987US supertanker SS Bridgeton collides with mines laid by IRGC causing a 43-square-meter dent in the body of the oil tanker.[†]
MV Bridgeton, ex-al-Rekkah, was a Kuwait Oil Company oil tanker that was reflagged to a U.S flag and renamed during Operation Earnest Will. The ship was built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in its Nagasaki shipyard and launched August 14, 1976. Bridgeton was part of the first Earnest Will convoy when it struck an Iranian mine near Farsi Island resulting in a major propaganda victory for the Iranians. In the late 1990s, Bridgeton transferred to Panamanian registry and was renamed Pacific Blue. It was scrapped in 2002 at Haryana Ship Demolition in Alang, India.
1987Hulda Crooks, at 91 years of age, climbed Mt. Fuji. Crooks became the oldest person to climb Japan's highest peak.[†]
Hulda Hoehn Crooks was an American mountaineer, dietitian and vegetarianism activist. Affectionately known as "Grandma Whitney" she successfully scaled 14,505-foot (4,421 m) Mount Whitney 23 times between the ages of 65 and 91. She had climbed 97 other peaks during this period. In 1990, an Act of Congress renamed Day Needle, one of the peaks in the Whitney area, to Crooks Peak in her honor.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]