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LEAD: Sanford I. Weill, who created the brokerage firm now known as Shearson Lehman Hutton, re-emerged yesterday as a Wall Street powerhouse with the announcement that he and Gerald Tsai Jr., another leading financier, would merge their current companies in a $1.65 billion deal.
LEAD: THE transplant of fetal tissue into the brain, a daring procedure that many experts have considered the best hope for treatment of Parkinson's disease, is yielding disappointing results, say Swedish scientists who have tried the operation on two patients.
LEAD: New-home sales suffered their steepest drop in seven months in July, and economists predicted further softening as rising mortgage interest rates push up the cost of buying a home.
LEAD: Clerical workers at New York University walked off the job yesterday morning in an attempt to disrupt the start of the school year and force the nation's largest private university to raise its offer of a 5.5 percent annual pay increase.
LEAD: Concerned about what they consider visual blight and rampant commercialism, a growing number of local governments are clamping down on billboards.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 24, 1988, covering August 30, 1988.
Tracy Chapman
Def Leppard
Steve Winwood
Guns N' Roses
D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
1988Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player[†]
Ernests Gulbis is a Latvian former professional tennis player. His career-high singles ranking is world No. 10, making him the only male Latvian tennis player ever to be ranked inside the top 10, a feat achieved in June 2014. In 2008, Gulbis won his first ATP Tour doubles title at the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships, teaming with Rainer Schüttler, and in 2010, he won his first ATP Tour singles title in the Delray Beach, defeating Ivo Karlović in the final. In total, Gulbis has six ATP titles to his name. His best performance at a Grand Slam was reaching the semifinals of the 2014 French Open. He had previously reached the quarterfinals of the 2008 French Open.
1988Jack Marshall, New Zealand colonel, lawyer and politician, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1912)[†]
Sir John Ross Marshall was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. He entered Parliament in 1946 and was first promoted to Cabinet in 1951. After spending twelve years as the deputy prime minister of New Zealand, he served as the 28th prime minister from February until December 1972.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]