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LEAD: A prominent executive plans to start a group to run employment offices in New York high schools and staff them with business people who would arrange to find jobs for qualified graduates.
LEAD: The International Business Machines Corporation, joining the hundreds of companies that have announced stock buyback programs since the market's plunge nine days ago, said yesterday that it would repurchase up to $1 billion of its stock.
LEAD: South Koreans overwhelmingly endorsed a new constitution Tuesday that clears the way for the first direct presidential elections here in 16 years.
LEAD: Citing concern over the plunge of the stock market, Mayor Koch ordered a major ''retrenchment'' in New York City hiring.
LEAD: Just when President Reagan and Congressional leaders have at last started moving toward a compromise on measures to reduce the Federal budget deficit by at least $23 billion next year, with the logjam apparently broken by the stock market plunge, an unlikely alliance of normally warring economists is warning that shrinking the deficit by raising taxes and cutting
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 28, 1987, covering October 28, 1987.
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
Bruce Springsteen
Soundtrack
Pink Floyd
1987Frank Ocean, American singer-songwriter[†]
Frank Ocean is an American singer and songwriter. He has been credited by several music critics as a pioneer of the alternative R&B genre. Ocean has won two Grammy Awards and a Brit Award for International Male Solo Artist, among other accolades; both of his studio albums have been listed on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" (2020).
1987André Masson, French soldier and painter (born 1896)[†]
André-Aimé-René Masson was a French artist.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]