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LEAD: An hour before the legal deadline, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo tonight blocked a $200-a-year tuition increase for students of New York's State University and City University systems.
LEAD: Ten months after Roosevelt Raceway was closed, the grandstand at the once-premier harness track on Long Island is crumbling, its three principal owners are being investigated for possible financial irregularities and critics say the owners may reap more than $100 million in profits after acquiring the track chiefly through tax breaks.
LEAD: There are two kinds of telephone men. One kind was the father in Tennessee Williams's ''The Glass Menagerie,'' who appeared only in a picture over the mantel.
LEAD: The General Accounting Office has challenged one of the Bush Administration's arguments for going ahead with a $7 billion agreement to produce a jet fighter with the Japan Defense Agency.
LEAD: Students are taking longer than ever to earn doctorates, about seven years compared with five and a half years in the 1960's. The slow pace is causing government officials and educators to fear there will be growing shortages of college teachers, scientists and many other professionals in coming years.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 3, 1989, covering May 3, 1989.
Madonna
Tone-Loc
Guns N' Roses
Fine Young Cannibals
Bobby Brown
1989Jesse Bromwich, New Zealand rugby league player[â ]
Jesse Bromwich is a New Zealand former professional rugby league footballer who last played as a prop for the Dolphins in the National Rugby League (NRL), who he also captained.
1989Katinka HosszĂș, Hungarian swimmer[â ]
Katinka HosszĂș is a Hungarian former competitive swimmer specialized in individual medley events. She is a three-time Olympic champion and a nine-time long-course world champion. She is the owner of a Budapest-based swim school and swim club called Iron Swim Budapest, and a co-owner and was captain of Team Iron, founding member of the International Swimming League.
1989Christine Jorgensen, American trans woman (born 1926)[â ]
Christine Jorgensen was an American actress, singer, recording artist, and transgender activist. A trans woman, she was the first person to become widely known in the United States for having sex reassignment surgery.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[â ]