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LEAD: Worried by a new series of mistakes by air traffic controllers in Chicago, the Federal Aviation Administration has cut peak-hour landings at the city's two main airports.
LEAD: Donald J. Trump, the Manhattan real estate developer, said yesterday that he was close to an agreement to buy the Eastern Airlines shuttle between New York, Boston and Washington. An executive close to the negotiations said he would pay more than $300 million in cash.
LEAD: Mets Lose and A's Win The Dodgers chased the Mets' 20-game winner David Cone with five runs in the first two innings and won, 6-3, in Los Angeles, tying the National League playoff at 1-1. Oakland got baseball's best hitter, Wade Boggs, to strike out in two key situations, beating the Red Sox, 2-1, in Boston in the opener of the American League series.
LEAD: With two days of showings to go, the parade of pleasant spring and summer fashions continues inexorably here. Every designer has his or her own vision of how women will want to look for warm weather, but there are common themes.
LEAD: Nordstrom Inc., the highly regarded West Coast fashion chain, will enter the metropolitan New York market in the spring of 1990 with a large store in the Menlo Park Mall in Edison, N.J.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 5, 1988, covering October 6, 1988.
Guns N' Roses
Def Leppard
Tracy Chapman
Soundtrack
Bobby McFerrin
1988Trey Edward Shults, American film director[†]
Trey Edward Shults is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. He is best known as the director and writer of the drama Krisha (2015), the psychological horror film It Comes at Night (2017), the drama Waves (2019), and the thriller Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025).
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]