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LEAD: JOSEPH DISPENZIERE is not a physician, but six days a week he makes house calls. Toting his list of nutrition tables and exercise schedules, he provides a customized physical fitness and nutrition program to his clients in the privacy of their own homes.
LEAD: CONSTRUCTION is proceeding on a $100 million resort hotel that is part of the evolution here from a community with dozens of small poolside bungalow hotels to one that serves convention-goers as well as tourists.
LEAD: The Commerce Department's report early this month on January employment was seen by some economists as one more sign that wage increases are about to accelerate, adding to inflationary pressures. Hourly wages, for example, rose at an annual rate of more than 7.6 percent. Also noteworthy was the addition of 408,000 to the nation's payrolls in January, an unexpectedly sharp increase that was only partly explained by unseasonably mild weather.
LEAD: Diana Trilling, the social and literary critic, is the author, among other books, of ''Claremont Essays'' and ''Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor.'' She is currently writing a memoir of her life with the critic Lionel Trilling and their role in the nation's cultural history. In interviews on Cape Cod last summer, Mrs.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 15, 1989, covering February 19, 1989.
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
Traveling Wilburys
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Guns N' Roses
1989Sone Aluko, English-Nigerian footballer[†]
Omatsone Folarin Aluko is a professional football coach and former player who played as a forward or winger. He is currently a first team coach at Ipswich Town.
1989Flying Tiger Line flight 66 crashes into a hill near Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Malaysia, killing four.[†]
Flying Tiger Line Flight 66 was a scheduled international cargo flight from Singapore Changi Airport to Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport via a stopover at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Malaysia. On February 19, 1989, the FedEx-owned Boeing 747-249F-SCD crashed while on its final approach. The aircraft impacted a hillside 437 ft (133 m) above sea level and 12 km from Kuala Lumpur, resulting in all four occupants being killed.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]