Market Turmoil; The Hours That Changed The World of Wall Street
LEAD: The face of Wall Street has been permanently changed.
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LEAD: The face of Wall Street has been permanently changed.
LEAD: Not enough is being done to assure that $200 million allocated for drug education last year is being used to establish effective programs in primary and secondary schools. Research indicates that the wrong type of curriculum can be ineffective or even harmful.
LEAD: From the beginning, they were an improbable team with an improbable chance. The players were gifted but woefully short on experience, the manager was merely the youngest among his peers.
LEAD: With the approach of the 70th anniversary of the Revolution on Nov. 7, the Soviet Union is engaged in a fractious exploration of long-veiled chapters in its history.
LEAD: Orders for American-made machine tools rebounded significantly in September, rising 29 percent from the previous month's level, according to a report scheduled to be released today by the National Machine Tool Builders Association.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 21, 1987, covering October 26, 1987.
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
Pink Floyd
Soundtrack
Def Leppard
1987Abudramae Bamba, Ivorian footballer[†]
Abudramae Bamba is an Ivorian footballer. He plays in the centre forward position.
1987Shawn Lauvao, American football player[†]
Shawn Sisifo Lauvao is an American former professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the third round of the 2010 NFL draft. He played college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]