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LEAD: A coalition of private and public groups is helping to subsidize a $5.9 million development of 48 two-bedroom condominium apartments at the interestion of Grand and Gates Avenues on the edge of the Clinton Hill Historic District in Brooklyn.
LEAD: IN a nostalgic embrace of the excesses that helped shape the Roaring Twenties, builders today are erecting multimillion-dollar mansions on speculation, targeting buyers who want to step into opulent new surroundings without the bother of collaborating with architects and designers.
LEAD: The deputy to C. Boyden Gray, the Presidential counsel and ethics aide who has maintained his chairmanship of a $500 million communications corporation, says he told Mr. Gray in November about a White House policy that prohibited involvement in outside business interests.
LEAD: The Bush Administration is considering a proposal to move quickly to take control of the nation's 350 insolvent savings and loan associations and place them under the management of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, industry officials said today.
LEAD: AS the nation prepares to embark on a new wave of space ventures after the successful launching of the shuttles Discovery and Atlantis late last year, the Grumman Corporation in Bethpage is engaged in a close race for a contract to build the first ''smart'' robot for use in outer space.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 1, 1989, covering February 5, 1989.
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
Traveling Wilburys
Poison
Guns N' Roses
1989Marina Melnikova, Russian tennis player[†]
Marina Anatolyevna Melnikova is a Russian tennis player.
1989Jeremy Sumpter, American actor[†]
Jeremy Robert Myron Sumpter is an American actor. His prominent roles include the title role in the 2003 fantasy adventure film Peter Pan, Jacob in the 2014 disaster film Into the Storm, and the recurring role of J. D. McCoy in the NBC television series Friday Night Lights (2008–2010).
1989Joe Raposo, American pianist and composer (born 1937)[†]
Joseph Guilherme Raposo, OIH was an American composer and songwriter. He is best known for his work on the children's television series Sesame Street, for which he wrote the theme song, and several notable songs, including "Bein' Green", "C Is For Cookie" and "Sing". He also wrote music for other television shows including The Electric Company, Shining Time Station and the sitcoms Three's Company and The Ropers, including their theme songs. Additionally, he composed scores for three Dr. Seuss television specials produced by DePatie–Freleng Enterprises: Halloween Is Grinch Night (1977), Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You? (1980), and The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat (1982).
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]