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LEAD: What if Bruce, the finny terror of the Amity populace, ahd turned vegetarian? What if Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains had hopped on board the plane that foggy night in Casablanca? Ever yearned to rewrite the ending of a movie? For a baker's dozen of cultural figures, the attraction was - though not fatal - irresistible.
LEAD: GETTING a permit to park at some New Haven Line railroad stations can be as difficult as getting season tickets for the New York Giants.
LEAD: FOLLOWING a rockslide on the Gov. Thomas E. Dewey Thruway in Greenburgh last January that killed a motorist, the Thruway Authority has identified nine rock cuts in the county that need repairs and has revised its inspection procedures for pinpointing problem sites, officials said.
LEAD: Bayport, L.I., is not a resort, although Fire Island, just across the Great South Bay, is. It is also not the most developed area on the South Shore, although Suffolk's largest downtown, Patchogue, and airport, Long Island-MacArthur, are nearby. Founded by clammers and rose growers, Bayport has remained a quiet, year-round community off the Montauk Highway, not the Long Island
LEAD: A COUPLE from Columbus, Ohio, checked into the Waldorf-Astoria last month, taking advantage of a special weekend rate. For $170.64 a night, the couple, Tom and Maria Harkins, and their two sons obtained accommodations that normally would have cost $100 more.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 6, 1988, covering April 10, 1988.
Soundtrack
George Michael
Michael Jackson
INXS
Tiffany
1988Chris Heston, American baseball pitcher[†]
Christopher Lee Heston is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played college baseball for East Carolina University and played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants, the Seattle Mariners and the Minnesota Twins. On June 9, 2015, he threw the 17th no-hitter in Giants franchise history.
1988Kareem Jackson, American football player[†]
Kareem Jackson is an American professional football safety. He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide. Jackson was selected by the Houston Texans in the first round of the 2010 NFL draft. He has also played for the Denver Broncos and Buffalo Bills.
1988Haley Joel Osment, American actor[†]
Haley Joel Osment is an American actor. Beginning his career as a child actor, Osment's role in the comedy-drama film Forrest Gump (1994) won him a Young Artist Award. His breakthrough came with the psychological thriller film The Sixth Sense (1999), for which he won a Saturn Award and was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He achieved further success with the drama film Pay It Forward (2000), the science fiction film A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), which won him a second Saturn Award, the comedy film Secondhand Lions (2003), which won him a Critics Choice Award, and the animated film The Jungle Book 2 (2003). He is also known as the voice of Sora and Vanitas in the Kingdom Hearts series.
1988Ezekias Papaioannou, Greek Cypriot politician (born 1908)[†]
Ezekias Papaioannou was a Greek Cypriot communist politician and Secretary General of AKEL.
1988The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan.[†]
The Ojhri Camp disaster took place on 10 April 1988. Ojhri Camp was a military storage center located in Rawalpindi Cantonment in Rawalpindi, Punjab Province of Pakistan. Following the disaster, then-Prime Minister Junejo ordered an inquiry into the events, culminating in President Zia-ul-Haq sacking him and dissolving Parliament.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]