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LEAD: Signaling its determination to become a major Wall Street trading house, Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Company announced yesterday that Lewis L. Glucksman, a widely respected stock and bond trader, would join the investment house, effective Saturday, to run all of Smith Barney's trading activities.
LEAD: For years, Tony Triano of the Bronx said, the rest of the world seemed to have what his borough did not - cable television. Friends in Manhattan had Islanders' hockey games piped into their living rooms. His sister-in-law in Nyack, N.Y., could flick on movies at will.
LEAD: While a small handful of computer experts have chosen to turn their imaginative minds to decoding and destroying seemingly secure systems, a group here saw the altruistic potential of their collective computer wisdom. The Compumentor Project, as the two-year-old group is called, has proven successful in making unlikely matches between a band of cerebral volunteers and nonprofit groups that have been reluctant to seek computer assistance.
LEAD: The legal barriers to building affordable housing in the suburbs crumbled significantly on Monday when the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Town of Huntington, L.I., violated Federal fair-housing laws through exclusionary zoning.
LEAD: It has never been easy to oust a party from the White House in times of peace and prosperity. That was the first underlying principle of the 1988 Presidential election.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 9, 1988, covering November 9, 1988.
U2
Guns N' Roses
Bon Jovi
Soundtrack
Def Leppard
1988Nikki Blonsky, American actress, singer, and dancer[†]
Nicole Blonsky is an American actress and singer. She is known for playing Tracy Turnblad in the film Hairspray (2007), for which she won two Critics' Choice Awards and nominations for a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
1988Lio Tipton, American actor and model[†]
Lio Tipton is an American actor and fashion model. Tipton is known for being the last eliminated on Cycle 11 of America's Next Top Model and for their roles in the films Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011), Warm Bodies (2013), and Two Night Stand (2014).
1988David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and priest (born 1924)[†]
David William Bauer was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach, educator and Catholic priest. He was a member of the Basilians, and established a program to develop players for the Canada men's national ice hockey team.
1988John N. Mitchell, American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 67th United States Attorney General (born 1913)[†]
John Newton Mitchell was the 67th attorney general of the United States, serving under President Richard Nixon and was chairman of Nixon's 1968 and 1972 presidential campaigns. Prior to that, he had been a municipal bond lawyer and one of Nixon's associates. He was tried and convicted as a result of his involvement in the Watergate scandal.
1988Rosemary Timperley, English author and screenwriter (born 1920)[†]
Rosemary Timperley was a British novelist, short story writer and screenwriter. She wrote a wide range of fiction, publishing 66 novels in 33 years, and several hundred short stories, but is best remembered for her ghost stories which appear in many anthologies. She also edited several volumes of ghost stories.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]