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May 29, 1988

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MADE FOR EACH OTHER

By Cathleen Shine

LEAD: HERB 'N' LORNA A Love Story. By Eric Kraft. Illustrated. 310 pp. New York: Crown Publishers. $17.95.

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Thinking Big at the Guggenheim

By Grace Glueck

LEAD: New York was slightly confounded last January when Thomas Krens, a farm-team player who heads the Williams College Museum of Art, was named to the prestigious post of director of the Guggenheim Museum. ''Tom who?'' was the puzzled query at Pleiades, Da Sylvano, the Canal Bar and other art eateries around town.

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What's Carl Icahn Up To?

By Joel Kurtzman

LEAD: Last Wednesday, Carl C. Icahn made a $60-a-share bid for Texaco's outstanding stock, but the company's management is fighting him. Mr. Icahn, who holds 14.8 percent of Texaco's stock, will have to raise $12.4 billion to purchase the remaining shares. Although he has put $100 million in escrow as a guarantee that he will raise the money, some still doubt that he can.

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India's Tentative Turnaround

By Steven R. Weisman

LEAD: THREE years ago, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi introduced a sweeping program of economic changes more in tune with Ronald Reagan's supply side gospel than the decades of socialist orthodoxy he had inherited in India. He slashed regulations, import barriers and taxes and demanded that Indian industry modernize and learn to compete, to hasten the nation's march into the 21st century.

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U.S.-SOVIET TALKS FAIL TO COMPLETE NEW ARMS ACCORD

By Michael R. Gordon, Special To the New York Times

LEAD: The United States and the Soviet Union have failed to complete one and possibly two of the three modest new arms control agreements that American officials hoped would be signed at the Moscow summit meeting, senior Administration officials said today.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 25, 1988, covering May 29, 1988.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Faith by George Michael

    Faith

    George Michael

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    28
  2. 2
    Album cover for Dirty Dancing by Soundtrack

    Dirty Dancing

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    37
  3. 3
    Album cover for Bad by Michael Jackson

    Bad

    Michael Jackson

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    36
  4. 4
    Album cover for More Dirty Dancing by Soundtrack

    More Dirty Dancing

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    11
  5. 5
    Album cover for Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby by Terence Trent D'Arby

    Introducing The Hardline According To Terence Trent D'Arby

    Terence Trent D'Arby

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    32

Notable Births

Muath al-Kasasbeh

1988Muath Al-Kasasbeh, Jordanian captain and pilot (died 2015)[†]

Muath Safi Yousef al-Kasasbeh was a Jordanian fighter pilot who was captured and burned to death by the Islamic State militant group after his F-16 fighter aircraft crashed over Syria.

1988Cheng Fei, Chinese gymnast[†]

Cheng Fei is a Chinese retired artistic gymnast. She is a three-time World Champion on the vault (2005–2007) and 2006 World Champion on floor exercise. She was a member of the gold medal-winning Chinese teams for the 2006 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Aarhus, Denmark and 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. She was also a member of the silver medal-winning Chinese team for the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.

Tobin Heath

1988Tobin Heath, American soccer player[†]

Tobin Powell Heath is an American professional soccer player and entrepreneur. Playing primarily as a forward and midfielder for the United States national team, she won gold at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, 2012 London Summer Olympics, 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup as well as silver at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup and bronze at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics. She was described as "perhaps the USA's most skillful player" by the United States Soccer Federation, and was named U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year in 2016 and U.S. Soccer Young Female Athlete of the Year in 2009.

Steve Mason (ice hockey)

1988Steve Mason, Canadian ice hockey player[†]

Steve Mason is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender. During his National Hockey League (NHL) career, he played for the Columbus Blue Jackets, Philadelphia Flyers and Winnipeg Jets.

Notable Deaths

Salem bin Laden

1988Salem bin Laden, Saudi Arabian businessman (born 1946)[†]

Salem bin Laden was a Saudi Arabian investor and businessman.

Historical Events

President of the United States

1988U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.[†]

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces.

Historical Context for May 29, 1988

In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]