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LEAD: It is country fair season, but it has been almost six years since anyone has seen a Ferris wheel, a 320-pound squash or an ox pull here in this fast-growing western Connecticut city.
LEAD: The dollar's decline and new economic strength, both of which awaken fears of inflation, are putting pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates, economists said today.
LEAD: Two men described by the police as members of the Colombo organized-crime family were slain in Brooklyn yesterday by one or two gunmen who strode up to them on a quiet sidewalk, opened fire, leaped into a car driven by an accomplice and sped away.
LEAD: Monday is Labor Day, and closings vary. Following are holiday schedules: NEW YORK Parade: Starts at 11 A.M. on Fifth Avenue at 44th Street, moving north to 86th Street, then east to Third Avenue. Parking: Sunday rules in effect. Sanitation: No collection or street sweeping.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 2, 1987, covering September 4, 1987.
Whitney Houston
Whitesnake
Soundtrack
Def Leppard
Heart
1987Wesley Blake, American wrestler[†]
Cory James Weston is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he works as a producer on the NXT brand and coach at the WWE Performance Center, having previously been an active competitor with the company, where he performed under the ring name Wesley Blake.
1987Marisa Kabas, American journalist[†]
Marisa Kabas is an American independent journalist, former political strategist, and creator of the newsletter The Handbasket.
1987Bill Bowes, English cricketer and coach (born 1908)[†]
William Eric Bowes was an English professional cricketer active from 1929 to 1947 who played in 372 first-class matches as a right arm fast bowler and a right-handed tail end batsman. He took 1,639 wickets with a best performance of nine for 121 and completed ten wickets in a match 27 times. He scored 1,531 runs with a highest score of 43* and is one of very few major players whose career total of wickets taken exceeded his career total of runs scored. He did not rate himself as a fielder but he nevertheless held 138 catches.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]