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LEAD: The United States Attorney's office in Manhattan has sent out a new series of subpoenas focusing on several takeover transactions involving Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., according to several people with knowledge of the Government's investigation.
LEAD: Is there a market for ruble-denominated junk bonds? Is the Soviet Union ready for Michael Milken, the head of the junk-bond department at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc.?
LEAD: IT is the stuff of fantasy. A woman is delayed at work and arrives home with only an hour to dress for a party. Her daughter needs help with her homework; so much for bath time. She jumps in and out of the shower and wraps her hair in a towel. Thirty minutes to go. Is she frantic? No. A personal shopper has made sure she has the right earrings, stockings and shoes to go with her dress.
LEAD: Lee Alexander, the longtime Mayor of Syracuse and former president of the United States Conference of Mayors, pleaded guilty today to Federal charges that he turned the Syracuse City Hall into a racketeering enterprise that extorted at least $1.2 million over 16 years from city contractors.
LEAD: The dollar's value rose for a third straight day in hectic trading yesterday, reaching levels not seen in a month or more against the West German mark and the yen.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 6, 1988, covering January 7, 1988.
Soundtrack
George Michael
Michael Jackson
Tiffany
Whitesnake
1988Haley Bennett, American actress and singer[†]
Haley Loraine Keeling, known professionally as Haley Bennett, is an American actress. She made her film debut in the romantic comedy Music and Lyrics (2007) and has since appeared in films such as The Equalizer (2014), The Magnificent Seven (2016), Hillbilly Elegy (2020), and Cyrano (2021).
1988Scott Pendlebury, Australian footballer[†]
Scott Pendlebury is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He served as Collingwood captain from 2014 to 2022. Pendlebury is a dual premiership player, also winning the Norm Smith Medal as best on ground in the 2010 grand final replay, and was the AFLCA champion player of the year in 2013. He is a six-time All-Australian and five-time Copeland Trophy winner, and is the Collingwood games record holder with 414 games. Pendlebury is the league record holder for disposals, handballs and tackles, and also has the most Brownlow Medal votes of any player who has not won the award.
1988Robert Sheehan, Irish actor[†]
Robert Sheehan is an Irish actor. He is best known for television roles such as Nathan Young in Misfits, Darren Treacy in Love/Hate, and Klaus Hargreeves in The Umbrella Academy, as well as film roles such as Tom Natsworthy in Mortal Engines and Simon Lewis in The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.
1988Zara Cisco Brough, American Nipmuc Indian chief and fashion designer (born 1919)[†]
Zara Cisco Brough, also called Princess White Flower, served as the Chief of the Nipmuc Nation, a state-recognized tribe in Massachusetts, from 1962 until 1987. She is best known for her work to preserve Nipmuc heritage.
1988Trevor Howard, English actor (born 1913)[†]
Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith was an English stage and screen actor. After varied work in the theatre, he achieved leading man star status in the film Brief Encounter (1945), followed by The Third Man (1949), portraying what BFI Screenonline called "a new kind of male lead in British films: steady, middle-class, reassuring…. but also capable of suggesting neurosis under the tweedy demeanour."
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]