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June 26, 1988

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POSTINGS: Off New Haven's Green; Second Edition

By Thomas L. Waite

LEAD: The 1911 Central Library in New Haven was intended by Cass Gilbert to be distinctly neo-Georgian. But will the library's 65,000-square-foot addition, almost twice the size of the original, also be neo-Georgian? ''I don't think Gilbert would think so, no,'' said Hugh Hardy, the architect. The original reflects the look of the three Colonial churches on the Green, which it faces across Elm

Real Estate Desk236 words

Being There, At a Price

By Robert Mcg. Thomas Jr

LEAD: As almost any Englishman can attest, the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club is something of a misnomer, reflecting the same linguistic license by which such exclusive boarding schools as Eton and Harrow are termed public schools. Membership is highly restricted, and so are tickets to the tennis championships.

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The Houses Aren't Selling

By David Winzelberg

LEAD: AFTER more than two years of record sales and skyrocketing appreciation in residential real estate, the Long Island housing boom has gone bust.

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'SO, YOU FELL IN LOVE WITH YOUR BABY'

By Robert Coles

LEAD: BIRTH MOTHER The Story of America's First Legal Surrogate Mother. By Elizabeth Kane. Illustrated. 294 pp. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. $17.95. SACRED BOND The Legacy of Baby M. By Phyllis Chesler. 212 pp. New York: Times Books. $16.95.

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Brawley Tapes Are All Blank, The F.B.I. Says

By Ralph Blumenthal

LEAD: A man who said he had made secret tape recordings of Tawana Brawley's advisers was charged yesterday with perjury and obstruction of justice after the tapes were found to be blank. The F.B.I. said it appeared that the tapes had never been used.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 22, 1988, covering June 26, 1988.

  1. 1
    Album cover for OU812 by Van Halen

    OU812

    Van Halen

    Last week
    5
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    2
  2. 2
    Album cover for Faith by George Michael

    Faith

    George Michael

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    32
  3. 3
    Album cover for Hysteria by Def Leppard

    Hysteria

    Def Leppard

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    45
  4. 4
    Album cover for Open Up And Say...Ahh! by Poison

    Open Up And Say...Ahh!

    Poison

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    6
  5. 5
    Album cover for Dirty Dancing by Soundtrack

    Dirty Dancing

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    41

Notable Births

1988Oliver Stang, German footballer[†]

Oliver Stang is a retired German footballer who was a defender and last played for SV Elversberg in the Regionalliga Südwest.

1988King Bach, Canadian-American actor, comedian, director, producer, writer and social media personality[†]

Andrew Byron Bachelor, better known by his stage name King Bach, is a Canadian-American Internet comedian and actor who rose to fame on the now-defunct video sharing service Vine, on which he was the most-followed user with 16.2 million followers.

Historical Events

Airbus A320 family

1988The first crash of an Airbus A320 occurs when Air France Flight 296Q crashes at Mulhouse–Habsheim Airfield in Habsheim, France, during an air show, killing three of the 136 people on board.[†]

The Airbus A320 family is a series of narrow-body airliners developed and produced by Airbus. The A320 was launched in March 1984, first flew on 22 February 1987, and was introduced in April 1988 by Air France. The first member of the family was followed by the stretched A321, the shorter A319, and the shortest variant, the A318 . Final assembly takes place in Toulouse in France; Hamburg in Germany; Tianjin in China since 2009; and Mobile, Alabama, in the United States since April 2016.

Historical Context for June 26, 1988

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