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LEAD: The Pentagon today suspended the Sundstrand Corporation as a Government contractor, temporarily cutting the company off from new contracts because of its admission last week of procurement fraud.
LEAD: Herrington on A-Plants The Energy Secretary acknowledged vast problems with the nuclear weapon industry and told of his efforts to address them. Page A16. Delay for Gene Therapy The head of the National Institutes of Health, citing ''unresolved questions,'' said he was delaying experiments to transplant genes into human patients, a major step toward long-awaited gene therapy.
LEAD: Three Americans were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday for research that improved the understanding of elementary particles and forces, while three West Germans won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for unraveling the structure of proteins that play a crucial role in photosynthesis.
LEAD: ''Happy Birthday to You'' may seem as if it belongs to everyone, but the song is actually under copyright, and that copyright will soon have a new owner.
LEAD: Robert R. McMillan's slogan for his low-budget challenge of Senator Daniel P. Moynihan is: ''He won't just talk - he'll get results for New York State.''
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 19, 1988, covering October 20, 1988.
Bon Jovi
Guns N' Roses
Def Leppard
Soundtrack
Bobby McFerrin
1988ASAP Ferg, American rapper[†]
Darold Durard Brown Ferguson Jr., known professionally as FERG, is an American rapper from Harlem, New York City. He is a lead member of the hip hop collective ASAP Mob, from which he adopted his moniker and recording contract with Polo Grounds and RCA Records—the same labels that helped launch ASAP Worldwide—in January 2013. Two years prior, the group's cohorts, ASAP Rocky and the late ASAP Yams, effectively negotiated their own contract with the label.
1988Candice Swanepoel, South African supermodel and philanthropist[†]
Candice Susan Swanepoel is a South African model. She is known for her work with Victoria's Secret. She became a Victoria's Secret Angel in 2010. In 2016, she was listed 8th on the Forbes top-earning models list.
1988Sheila Scott, English pilot and author (born 1922)[†]
Sheila Christine Scott OBE was an English aviator who broke over 100 aviation records through her long-distance flight endeavours, which included a 34,000-mile (55,000 km) "world and a half" flight in 1971. On this flight, she became the first person to fly over the North Pole in a small aircraft. She was also the first European woman to fly solo around the world.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]