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LEAD: Americans still have three weeks left to take advantage of a variety of tax-saving strategies that will make next April 15 less costly.
LEAD: BLACK MONDAY and its aftershocks put a sudden stop to some decorating projects, but in spite of the stock-market decline, most clients remain bullish about investing in their homes - bullish but sobered into thinking more carefully about quality and style.
LEAD: President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev confronted two of the knottiest problems of their three-day summit conference today - the war in Afghanistan and cutbacks in strategic nuclear weapons -without achieving an immediate breakthrough on either one.
LEAD: Raisa Gorbachev paused for a moment on her tour of the White House today when a reporter asked whether she would like to live in such a place.
LEAD: The Florida Legislature, working in a marathon special session, repealed the state's controversial tax on services early today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 9, 1987, covering December 10, 1987.
Soundtrack
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
Pink Floyd
George Michael
1987Gonzalo Higuaín, French-Argentinian footballer[†]
Gonzalo Gerardo Higuaín is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. Nicknamed El Pipita or Pipa, he is considered to be one of the best strikers of his generation and was a prolific striker known for his eye for goal, strong physique, offensive movements and predatory finishing. He won six European league titles across La Liga and Serie A.
1987Jascha Heifetz, Lithuanian-American violinist and educator (born 1901)[†]
Jascha Heifetz was a Russian-American violinist, widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of all time. Born in Vilnius, he was soon recognized as a child prodigy and was trained in the Russian classical violin style in St. Petersburg. Accompanying his parents to escape the violence of the Russian Revolution, he moved to the United States as a teenager, where his Carnegie Hall debut was rapturously received. Fritz Kreisler, another leading violinist of the twentieth century, said after hearing Heifetz's debut, "We might as well take our fiddles and break them across our knees."
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]