On this day
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LEAD: The chairman of the Federal Reserve Board gave Congress a message today that some legislators wanted to hear and some did not: do not rush to pass legislation to avert another market crash.
LEAD: On Saturday mornings, Luz Velazquez, a junior at the Manhattan Center for Math and Science in East Harlem, resists the temptation to sleep late or watch television. Instead, she and 19 of her high school classmates return to school for an intense coaching course aimed at raising their scores on the Scholastic Aptitude
LEAD: Next to Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d, the man on the spot in the current turmoil at the Justice Department is Solicitor General Charles Fried.
LEAD: ''Beloved,'' a novel by Toni Morrison about the agonizing remembrances of a former slave in post-Civil War Ohio, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction yesterday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 30, 1988, covering April 1, 1988.
Soundtrack
George Michael
Michael Jackson
INXS
Tiffany
1988Brook Lopez, American basketball player[†]
Brook Robert Lopez is an American professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Nicknamed "Splash Mountain", he was named an NBA All-Star as a member of the Brooklyn Nets, and has been voted twice to the NBA All-Defensive Team while with the Bucks. He won an NBA championship with Milwaukee in 2021.
1988Robin Lopez, American basketball player[†]
Robin Byron Lopez is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected with the 15th pick in the 2008 NBA draft by the Phoenix Suns, was traded to the New Orleans Hornets in 2012 and was traded to Portland in 2013. He played college basketball for the Stanford Cardinal alongside his twin brother Brook Lopez. He has played for nine NBA teams, including a three-year stint with the Chicago Bulls and two stints with the Bucks.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]