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LEAD: In an action unprecedented in post-season baseball play, Jay Howell, the Los Angeles Dodgers' No. 1 relief pitcher, was ejected from the third game of the National League pennant playoff yesterday for having pine tar on his glove.
LEAD: The Texas Air Corporation and Scandinavian Airlines Systems last week announced an alliance between the two companies that would link their schedules and flights around the world. In the agreement, S.A.S. also has the right to purchase up to 10 percent of Texas Air within the next six months. Texas Air, which lost $255.9 million in the second quarter of 1988 and has developed a reputation for poor service, will receive $50 million from S.A.S.
LEAD: BUILDERS of Manhattan condominiums are rolling a new word off their tongues these days as readily as ''luxury,'' the reigning favorite.
LEAD: As the price for crude oil slid below $10 a barrel in the spot market last week and OPEC officials warned that it could sink to $5, an uneasy sense of deja vu pervaded the world. The sharp decline stirred memories of the price plunge that occurred in 1986, sending economic shock waves through oil-producing regions, including the American
LEAD: On the day Paul Gann learned he had AIDS, five years after a blood transfusion, he considered leaving his wife of 56 years, his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and isolating himself in a desert cabin.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 5, 1988, covering October 9, 1988.
Guns N' Roses
Def Leppard
Tracy Chapman
Soundtrack
Bobby McFerrin
1988Starling Marte, Dominican baseball player[†]
Starling Javier Marte is a Dominican professional baseball outfielder for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played in MLB for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Arizona Diamondbacks, Miami Marlins, and Oakland Athletics. He made his MLB debut in 2012 with the Pirates. Marte is a two-time MLB All-Star and a two-time Gold Glove Award winner. In 2021, he led the major leagues with 47 stolen bases. He is the active leader in stolen bases and triples with 354 and 55, respectively.
1988David Tyrrell, Australian rugby league player[†]
David Tyrrell is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. Tyrrell played his entire career for the South Sydney Rabbitohs in the NRL, primarily as a prop.
1988Felix Wankel, German engineer, invented the Wankel engine (born 1902)[†]
Felix Heinrich Wankel was a German mechanical engineer and inventor after whom the Wankel engine was named. Wankel joined various radical antisemitic organizations after World War I and was a prominent member of the Nazi Party.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]