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LEAD: Poland's Paradoxes Poland's changes are exemplified by the sight of Lech Walesa all but urging his recent jailer, Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski, to run for the presidency.
LEAD: SITE preparation here is nearly complete for a 29-story building that, when completed in two years, will join three others that now rise 17 stories or more just a few blocks from the three-story State Capitol.
LEAD: THOUGH she has made her home on a rambling 100-acre farm here for just shy of a half century, the celebrated contralto Marian Anderson has kept a low profile. So low, in fact, that when the directors of the Charles Ives Center for the Performing Arts in Danbury suggested that a gala concert be staged in her honor, the 87-year-old singer was opposed to it.
LEAD: After three years of turmoil, one of the biggest mergers in advertising is starting to pay off, thanks mostly to its architect - a Middle Western adman who stumbled badly at first in making the transition to Madison Avenue.
LEAD: FROM the village of Island Park to the town of Brookhaven, accusations of corruption and favoritism in federally subsidized housing programs have given a strong Long Island angle to the investigations that have shaken the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 12, 1989, covering July 16, 1989.
Fine Young Cannibals
Bobby Brown
Tom Petty
New Kids on the Block
Milli Vanilli
1989Gareth Bale, Welsh footballer[†]
Gareth Frank Bale is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a right winger, most notably for Tottenham Hotspur, Real Madrid, and the Wales national team. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of his generation and the greatest Welsh player of all time. Bale was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2022 Birthday Honours for his contributions to association football and various charities.
1989Herbert von Karajan, Austrian conductor and manager (born 1908)[†]
Herbert von Karajan was an Austrian conductor. He was principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 34 years. During the Nazi era, he debuted at the Salzburg Festival, with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, and during World War II he conducted at the Berlin State Opera. Generally regarded as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, he was a controversial but dominant figure in European classical music from the mid-1950s until his death. Part of the reason for this was the large number of recordings he made and their prominence during his lifetime. By one estimate, he sold 200 million records.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]