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LEAD: THIS largely industrial Los Angeles suburb has begun a residential redevelopment effort with a tract of single-family homes laid out in a pattern first used in France.
LEAD: PEOPLE could wonder why Michael Dukakis bothers running. Jimmy Carter rode Gerald Ford out of the White House with a severe recession fresh in voters' minds and inflation picking up speed. Ronald Reagan then rode Mr. Carter out, months after another recession and when inflation and interest rates were raging.
LEAD: Steve Pappas readily admits that constructing an office building among the two- and three-family homes in the Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn is a bit unusual. But that singularity, he said, assures a local market. The 58,000-square-foot structure that Mr. Pappas, with Gino Silvestri and Gus Spiropoulos, is raising above 92d Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues will be marketed mostly to medical, legal and other small space users now shoehorned into neighborhood storefronts.
LEAD: ''Just about everyone on Long Island knows this site,'' said Robert Krieger, who with his father, Maxwell, and brother, Steven, is building 44 town houses on three acres in Elmont. But not just any three acres. On this lot between Stewart and Franklin Streets on Johnson Avenue was a recreational complex that included a huge, above-ground pool and the Wal-Cliffe Rollerdrome, a roller-skating rink.
LEAD: When a judge overturned a zoning restriction last month aimed at protecting factory tenants in New York City's garment district, the ruling marked a new sort of victory for the Real Estate Board of New York.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 31, 1988, covering September 4, 1988.
Def Leppard
Tracy Chapman
Guns N' Roses
Steve Winwood
D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
1988Adam Duvall, American baseball player[†]
Adam Lynn Duvall is an American professional baseball outfielder who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants, Cincinnati Reds, Atlanta Braves, Miami Marlins, and Boston Red Sox. Duvall played college baseball at the University of Louisville. Duvall was drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 11th round of the 2010 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut in 2014. He was an All-Star in 2016.
1988John Tyler Hammons, American politician[†]
John Tyler Hammons is an American politician who served as the 47th mayor of Muskogee, Oklahoma, from 2008 to 2012. He gained national attention when he was elected on May 13, 2008, as a 19-year-old freshman at the University of Oklahoma, after winning 70 percent of the vote in a runoff election against 70-year-old, three-time former Muskogee mayor Herschel McBride. Hammons was reelected on April 6, 2010, in a four-way race.
1988JJ Hickson, American basketball player[†]
James Edward "JJ" Hickson Jr. is an American former professional basketball player. He played one season of college basketball for North Carolina State University before being drafted 19th overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2008 NBA draft. He played in the NBA for the Cavaliers, Denver Nuggets, Sacramento Kings and Portland Trail Blazers, as well as in Israel for Bnei HaSharon during the 2011 NBA lockout.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]