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LEAD: Like it or not, Britain's chief delegate to the United Nations will be dining this week at his Beekman Place residence on sheep sorrel, lady's-thumb, poor man's pepper, amaranth and lamb's-quarters - all wild plants and weeds picked yesterday in Central Park by his enterprising chef.
LEAD: Protesting what they called the stagnant state of rock-and-roll radio in New York City, a group of gadfly radio enthusiasts took to the airwaves last week from a rusty old freighter anchored five miles off Long Island's South Shore.
LEAD: It is reckoning time in both the Congress and the Reagan Administration for the most far-reaching banking legislation in more than seven years.
LEAD: Efforts to fight a blaze in a high-rise Harlem apartment building that killed seven people in March were hampered by fire dispatchers who mishandled calls and by firefighters at the scene who created an atmosphere of confusion, Mayor Koch said yesterday.
LEAD: Only weeks after major banks in the United States declared that a quarter of their Latin American loans were probably worthless, Brazil has asked its bank creditors for $7.2 billion in new money at zero interest.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 22, 1987, covering July 27, 1987.
Whitney Houston
U2
Motley Crue
Whitesnake
Heart
1987Jacoby Ford, American football player[â ]
Jacoby Ford is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver and return specialist. He was selected by the Oakland Raiders in the fourth round of the 2010 NFL draft. He was also an accomplished track and field athlete. He played college football as a wide receiver and return specialist for the Clemson Tigers at Clemson University, where he competed in sprinting events. During his stint in the NFL, Ford was widely regarded as one of the fastest players in the league. He has one of the top 100 meter times by NFL players.
1987Marek HamÅ¡Ãk, Slovak footballer[â ]
Marek HamÅ¡Ãk is a Slovak football coach and former player who played as a midfielder. He is currently the team manager and assistant coach for the Slovakia national team.
1987Jordan Hill, American basketball player[â ]
Jordan Craig Hill is an American former professional basketball player.
1987Sarah Parsons, American ice hockey player[â ]
Sarah Sturgis Parsons is an American ice hockey player. She won a bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics. She was a member of Dartmouth College's class of 2010.
1987Travis Jackson, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1903)[â ]
Travis Calvin Jackson was an American baseball shortstop. In Major League Baseball (MLB), Jackson played for the New York Giants from 1922 through 1936, winning the 1933 World Series, and representing the Giants in the MLB All-Star Game in 1934. After his retirement as a player, Jackson managed in minor league baseball through to the 1960 season.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[â ]