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LEAD: FOR James J. Hogan, the leaf season has just begun. Mr. Hogan's leaves - about 250 cubic yards to date, all stored at Croton Point in a neat pile called a windrow - are bright yellow or orange or red. By next summer, they will be deep brown.
LEAD: Within 10 days of his election triumph, Vice President Bush has signaled leaders of his party and the broader political community that he intends to adopt a much more energetic and more deeply involved Presidential style than that of the man he has served under for eight years, Ronald Reagan.
LEAD: President Reagan's executive order on nuclear emergency planning has come too late to speed the efforts by managers at the Shoreham and Seabrook nuclear power plants to begin commercial operation, Federal officials and many supporters and opponents of the plants said yesterday.
LEAD: It would seem that R. Gordon McGovern, the Campbell Soup Company's chief executive, should be feeling, well, M'm! M'm! Good!
LEAD: THE 772-acre Brassknocker Farm was two weeks away from the auctioneer's gavel in the spring of 1987 when the Vermont Land Trust stepped in with $575,000, most of it borrowed, to try to keep this northern Vermont town of 884 people - which has no zoning - from being overrun by condominiums.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 16, 1988, covering November 20, 1988.
U2
Guns N' Roses
Soundtrack
Bon Jovi
Anita Baker
1988Marie-Laure Brunet, French biathlete[†]
Marie-Laure Brunet is a retired French biathlete and Olympic athlete who won a bronze medal in the women's pursuit at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games of Vancouver.
1988Aya Medany, Egyptian modern pentathlete.[†]
Aya Medany is an Egyptian modern pentathlete. She made her Olympic début at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, as the youngest competitor both in the Egyptian team and competing in the pentathlon.
1988Max Pacioretty, American ice hockey player[†]
Maximillian Kolenda Pacioretty is an American professional ice hockey left winger for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL).
1988Roberto Rosales, Venezuelan footballer[†]
Roberto José Rosales Altuve is a Venezuelan professional footballer who plays for Deportivo Táchira and the Venezuela national team. Mainly a right back, he can also play as a right midfielder.
1988Dariga Shakimova, Kazakhstani boxer[†]
Dariga Shakimova is a Kazakhstani boxer. In 2015, she was named the Female Boxer of the Year by the Kazakhstan Boxing Federation. She won a bronze medal in the middleweight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Shakimova studied at the Kazakh Academy of Sport and Tourism. After watching the film Million Dollar Baby, her mother wanted her to stop boxing, fearing for a serious injury. Shakimova's coach persuaded her to reconsider.
1988Dušan Tadić, Serbian footballer[†]
Dušan Tadić is a Serbian professional footballer. He played most recently for Turkish club Fenerbahçe. Positionally, he can be deployed as an attacking midfielder, winger or forward.
1988Rhys Wakefield, Australian actor and director[†]
Rhys Wakefield is an Australian actor and director, known for his roles in Australian TV series Home and Away, the feature film The Black Balloon (2008) and in season 3 of HBO's True Detective in 2019.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]