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LEAD: They were a ray of hope in the dark days following the Oct. 19 collapse of the stock market: signaling a vote of confidence in the financial markets, corporations big and small announced large buybacks of their shares, telling investors that they stood ready to buy their companies' stock even if no one else would.
LEAD: Jay Haas, one of the consistent but not spectacular players on the PGA Tour for the last dozen years, played just that way today - managing steady but not spectacular golf - to win the 29th annual Bob Hope Chrysler Classic by two shots over David Edwards.
LEAD: In his spacious 46th-floor office, C. Edward Acker, chairman and chief executive of the Pan Am Corporation, and Martin R. Shugrue, the vice chairman, were going over airline schedules and seat sales last Thursday morning. They were trying their best, it seemed, to keep their minds off a far more pressing matter.
LEAD: Just six months after the State Legislature passed a set of ethics bills hailed as among the most important reform measures in New York's history, the issue of legislative ethics has again begun to dominate debate here.
LEAD: In its second major excursion into the United States in just over a year, the Campeau Corporation of Canada last night began a $4.2 billion offer for Federated Department Stores Inc., the owner of Bloomingdale's, Abraham & Straus and Filene's.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 20, 1988, covering January 25, 1988.
Tiffany
George Michael
Soundtrack
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
1988Tatiana Golovin, French tennis player[†]
Tatiana Golovin is a French former professional tennis player. She won the 2004 French Open mixed-doubles event, partnering with Richard Gasquet, and reached the singles quarterfinals at the 2006 US Open, losing to the eventual champion Maria Sharapova. Her career-high singles ranking is world No. 12. In 2008, she was diagnosed with lower back inflammation and was forced to stop playing competitive tennis.
1988Ryota Ozawa, Japanese actor[†]
Ryota Ozawa is a Japanese actor best known for his role as Captain Marvelous/Gokai Red in the 2011 Super Sentai series Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger.
1988Colleen Moore, American actress (born 1899)[†]
Colleen Moore was an American film actress who began her career during the silent film era. Moore became one of the most fashionable stars of the era and helped popularize the bobbed haircut.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]