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LEAD: IN the old days, Casey Stengel used to drive a taxicab in Kansas City to pay the bills, Walter Johnson dug postholes for the Idaho Telephone Company, Smoky Joe Wood and countless other baseball players spent their winters working the family farm and Rube Marquard passed three winters hoofing round the vaudeville circuit on stage with his wife, Blossom
LEAD: Democrats have always relished political brawling. The Republicans say they prefer campaigns run according to the rules of engagement laid down by Emily Post.
LEAD: Losing patience with price discounting by other members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Saudi Arabia has introduced a discount plan to insure it will hold on to its major American customers, a respected trade journal and industry experts said.
LEAD: The Metro-North Commuter Railroad would like to make Grand Central Terminal a destination in its own right and not just a place to catch a train.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 6, 1988, covering January 11, 1988.
Soundtrack
George Michael
Michael Jackson
Tiffany
Whitesnake
1988Epiphanny Prince, American-Russian basketball player[†]
Epiphanny Prince is a Russian-American former professional basketball player.
1988Pappy Boyington, American colonel and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1912)[†]
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington was an American combat pilot who was a United States Marine Corps fighter ace during World War II. He received the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross. A Marine aviator with the Pacific fleet in 1941, Boyington joined the "Flying Tigers" of the Republic of China Air Force and saw combat in Burma in late 1941 and 1942 during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1988Isidor Isaac Rabi, Polish-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1898)[†]
Israel "Isidor" Isaac Rabi was an American nuclear physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which is used in magnetic resonance imaging. He was also one of the first scientists in the United States to work on the cavity magnetron, which is used in microwave radar and microwave ovens.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]