On this day
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LEAD: JEANNE and Michael Devine are the proud owners of a new brick town house in South Boston. Christine Hopko has just moved into a three-bedroom split-level home in Auburn, N.Y. Nadine Bones hopes to buy the renovated row house she and her two sons are now renting in a historic neighborhood in York, Pa.
LEAD: Some days, there is no toilet paper in the bathrooms at Riverdale Junior High School in the Bronx. Other days, exit doors remain chained, and garbage swirls in the wind outside the building.
LEAD: In the latest round of its battle to gain control of the USG Corporation, Desert Partners L.P. today offered $42 a share, or $2.16 billion in cash and securities, for the outstanding common stock of the nation's largest gypsum producer.
LEAD: President Reagan said tonight that the United States had ''intimations'' that outside agitators were partly responsible for inciting the violent clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 24, 1988, covering February 25, 1988.
George Michael
Soundtrack
INXS
Tiffany
Michael Jackson
1988Tom Marshall, English photo colouriser and artist[†]
Tom Marshall is a British model maker, voice actor, director and image editor known for his colourisations of historical black and white photographs, often working under the name PhotograFix. He is a scale model maker with his model company Buggleskelly Station.
1988Gerald McCoy, American football player[†]
Gerald Keith McCoy Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners, earning consensus All-American honors. He was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers with the third overall pick of the 2010 NFL draft. McCoy has been selected to the Pro Bowl six times, and was selected to one First-team All-Pro.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]