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LEAD: When you're general manager in the bottom rungs of minor league baseball, you really have to manage everything in general. ''Geneva Cubs,'' said Ken Shepard, who answers the phones, too. ''Game starts 7:30.'' ''Geneva Cubs,'' said Mr. Shepard. ''No, we don't sell gloves here.'' ''Geneva Cubs,'' said Mr.
LEAD: John Hersey, one of the best known and respected writers in the United States, offered his apologies to another writer yesterday and said he would attempt to give ''direct credit'' to a book from which, he acknowledged, he had appropriated numerous facts and phrases without attribution in a recent article in The New
LEAD: Seven years after the start of a multi-billion-dollar program to rebuild the subway system, trains are cleaner and break down less often but still do not run on time and are increasingly plagued by delays, a riders' advocacy group said yesterday.
LEAD: Senior Soviet and Chinese officials plan to meet in Beijing next month to seek peace in Cambodia, American officials said today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 20, 1988, covering July 22, 1988.
Def Leppard
Van Halen
Soundtrack
Guns N' Roses
George Michael
1988William Buick, Norwegian-British flat jockey[†]
William Buick is a Norwegian-born British flat jockey. He shared the champion apprentice jockey title in 2008 with David Probert and won the Lester Award for Apprentice Jockey of the Year in 2007 and 2008. From 2010 to 2014 he was stable jockey to John Gosden. In 2015 he signed with Godolphin. Buick won his first Group 1 race in Canada in 2010 and since then has won Group 1 races in England, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. He has won five British Classic Races: the St Leger in 2010, 2011 and 2021, the Derby in 2018 and the 2000 Guineas in 2024. He was British flat racing Champion Jockey in 2022 and 2023.
1988Paul Coutts, Scottish footballer[†]
Paul Alexander Coutts is a Scottish footballer who plays for Highland League club Inverurie Loco Works.
1988George Santos, American politician[†]
George Anthony Devolder Santos is an American former politician and convicted felon. He served as the U.S. representative for New York's 3rd congressional district from January to December 2023 when he was expelled from Congress. He had run for the seat in 2020 as a Republican, but was defeated by incumbent Democratic representative Tom Suozzi. After Suozzi opted against seeking re-election in 2022, Santos ran for the same seat and won, defeating Democrat Robert Zimmerman and becoming the first openly LGBTQ Republican elected to Congress.
1988Thomas Kraft, German footballer[†]
Thomas Kraft is a German former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1988Sercan Temizyürek, Turkish footballer[†]
Sercan Temizyürek is a Turkish professional footballer who currently plays as a left winger for Eyüpspor.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]