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LEAD: For more than 40 years, Peter Ventricelli's family has made steel girders for the construction industry. Now, he plans to raise a few of his own and right over the site of his Grand View Steel Company in Lodi, N.J. Grand View Towers, with 192 condominiums, will replace the 8,000-square-foot plant on Route 46 and Contant Avenue.
LEAD: In this little Midwestern town of 5,000 people with its wide, tree-lined streets and classic old white-frame houses, the dominant verities include the Cleveland Browns, the flag, and the honor of the United States.
LEAD: THE Vermont Legislature, in a move to regulate companies that subdivide and rapidly resell rural land to city dwellers, last year passed laws that both increased oversight of such deals and raised taxes on land-sale profits. According to state officials and representatives of the land companies, the results have proven to be dramatic.
LEAD: THE Boy Scouts of America told her no, and so did the courts, but time was on Catherine N. Pollard's side. In a week and a half, after a fight of nearly a decade and a half, she will become the leader of a Boy Scout troop.
LEAD: With an unusually large number of homes for sale and buyers insisting on bargains, a consensus has emerged among economists and real estate professionals that prices in the New York metropolitan region will increase little, if at all, for the rest of the decade.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 24, 1988, covering August 28, 1988.
Tracy Chapman
Def Leppard
Steve Winwood
Guns N' Roses
D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
1988Shalita Grant, American actress[†]
Shalita Grant is an American actress best known for portraying NCIS Special Agent Sonja Percy on NCIS: New Orleans. She is also known from her roles on Mercy Street, You, Santa Clarita Diet, and Search Party.
1988Rosie MacLennan, Canadian trampoline gymnast[†]
Rosannagh "Rosie" MacLennan is a Canadian retired trampoline gymnast. She is the 2013 and 2018 World Trampoline champion, 2012 and 2016 Olympic champion, and 2011 and 2015 Pan American Games champion in the individual trampoline event. MacLennan was the Canadian National Women's champion in 2005, 2009 and 2011, and in 2007 was the World Champion in synchronized trampoline with Karen Cockburn. She has also won five silver and four bronze medals in World Championship competition in both the individual and synchro events. MacLennan trains at Skyrider's Trampoline Place in Richmond Hill, Ontario, with coach David Ross, who has coached all of Canada's Olympic trampolinists.
1988Jean Marchand, Canadian union leader and politician, 43rd Secretary of State for Canada (born 1918)[†]
Jean Marchand was a French Canadian public figure, trade unionist and politician in Quebec, Canada.
1988Max Shulman, American author and screenwriter (born 1919)[†]
Maximilian Shulman was an American writer and humorist best known for his television and short story character Dobie Gillis, as well as for best-selling novels.
1988Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.[†]
The Ramstein air show disaster occurred on Sunday, 28 August 1988 during the Flugtag '88 airshow at USAF Ramstein Air Base near Kaiserslautern, West Germany. Three aircraft of the Italian Air Force display team collided during their display, crashing to the ground in front of a crowd of about 300,000 people. There were 70 fatalities, and 346 spectators sustained serious injuries in the resulting explosion and fire. Hundreds more had minor injuries. At the time, it was the deadliest air show accident in history until a 2002 crash at the Sknyliv air show in Ukraine that killed 77.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]