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LEAD: Bob Dole watched his wife, Elizabeth, with mock suspicion to make sure she was not campaigning harder than he was for the coveted Vice-Presidential spot. Ronald Reagan swept his wife up in his arms and told the world, in unabashed prose that made Nancy Reagan blush and mist, just how much he loves her.
LEAD: What stands to be the costliest election race in American history except for the one for the Presidency is gathering force in California - and no one is even running for office.
LEAD: Internecine warfare was declared within Connecticut's Republican Party today.
LEAD: At the first public hearing since the city and four City Councilmen were found in contempt of court, scores of residents had their five minutes each under the glare of television lights tonight. Most vented anger over a court-ordered housing desegregation plan, but some said it was time to obey the law and build the subsidized housing.
LEAD: THE ECONOMY U.S. factories, mines and utilities raised output 0.8 percent in July. It was the biggest monthly increase this year and broader based than had been expected. As the latest evidence of a booming economy, it raised the possibility the Government will have to take steps to raise interest rates again to contain inflation.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 10, 1988, covering August 16, 1988.
Def Leppard
Steve Winwood
Guns N' Roses
Tracy Chapman
Soundtrack
1988Ismaïl Aissati, Moroccan footballer[†]
Ismaïl Aissati is a Moroccan former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
1988Ryan Kerrigan, American football player[†]
Patrick Ryan Kerrigan is an American professional football coach and former player who is the assistant linebackers and pass rush specialist coach for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Purdue Boilermakers, earning unanimous All-American honors as a senior before being selected by the Washington Redskins in the first round of the 2011 NFL draft.
1988Rumer Willis, American actress[†]
Rumer Glenn Willis is an American actress. The eldest daughter of actors Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, she made her acting debut opposite her mother in the coming-of-age drama Now and Then (1995). She subsequently appeared in films such as Striptease (1996), Hostage (2005), The House Bunny (2008), Sorority Row (2009), and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019). She portrayed Gia Mannetti on The CW teen drama series 90210 (2009–2010) and Tory Ash on the FOX musical drama series Empire (2017–2018). Willis won season 20 of the ABC dance competition television series Dancing with the Stars, and made her Broadway debut as Roxie Hart in the musical Chicago on September 21, 2015.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]