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LEAD: ATTORNEY GENERAL W. Cary Edwards spent most of last Tuesday trying to convince a skeptical Senate committee that he did not let New York City off easy last month when he settled a suit on the city's handling of garbage.
LEAD: ON DEC. 18, New York City officials turned over the last five vacant apartment buildings on the Grand Concourse to private developers for rehabilitation into badly needed housing for the Bronx.
LEAD: DEVOTEES OF SCHUBERT WILL BE HAPPY to know that the next 10 years of their lives have been planned for them. In an act of extraordinary devotion and tenacity, the 92d Street Y has committed itself to performing the 600 songs, nine symphonies, 22 piano sonatas and 15 string quartets, plus the duos, quintets, trios, octets, operas, masses and choruses that poured out in such profusion over
LEAD: When Vinton L. Pickens, now 88 years old, first moved to her family's manor house in Loudoun County, Va., 52 years ago, her closet neighbor operated a farm more than a mile away.
LEAD: THE coming Congressional vote on renewing aid to the Nicaraguan rebels and the demands made by a frayed regional peace treaty have combined to make the next two weeks perhaps the most decisive of the many turning points in Central America's current turbulent passage.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 20, 1988, covering January 24, 1988.
Tiffany
George Michael
Soundtrack
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
1988Selina Jörg, German snowboarder[†]
Selina Jörg is a German snowboarder.
1988DaJuan Summers, American basketball player[†]
DaJuan Michael Summers is an American professional basketball player for Piratas de La Guaira of the Superliga Profesional de Baloncesto (SPB). He played college basketball for the Georgetown Hoyas. In the 2009 NBA draft, he was drafted 35th overall by the Detroit Pistons.
1988Werner Fenchel, German-Danish mathematician and academic (born 1905)[†]
Moritz Werner Fenchel was a German-Danish mathematician known for his contributions to geometry and to optimization theory. Fenchel established the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory which would, in time, serve as the foundation for nonlinear programming. A German-born Jew and early refugee from Nazi suppression of intellectuals, Fenchel lived most of his life in Denmark. Fenchel's monographs and lecture notes are considered influential.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]