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LEAD: It sounds at first like an industry-recruiting commercial for the city of Stamford. The voice is dulcet, against a background of a tinkling piano and the lyric chirp of birds. Stamford. Beautiful. Peaceful. On the shore of picturesque Long Island Sound. . . . Home to more corporate chief executives than any city.
LEAD: Hardly a building remains unscathed in West Beirut as Lebanese Christian forces and their Syrian foes clash. Most residents have fled. Those who have not rush to basements at the first crash of a shell. Article, page A7.
LEAD: The Texas Air Corporation, the nation's largest airline company, yesterday announced heavy second-quarter losses, as Eastern Airlines, its strike-crippled bankrupt subsidiary, reported that its losses for the quarter exceeded total sales.
LEAD: A terrorist group in Lebanon said today that it had hanged a hostage Marine colonel, and distributed a grisly videotape that showed a figure identified as the American twisting at the end of a rope.
LEAD: An article in Science Times on Aug. 1 about new robots called teleoperators referred incorrectly to the views of John Molino, president of the Tech-U-Fit Corporation in Alexandria, Va. He said he believed the robots would assist, but not replace, shuttle crews working in space.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 26, 1989, covering August 1, 1989.
Prince
Fine Young Cannibals
New Kids on the Block
Bobby Brown
Milli Vanilli
1989Madison Bumgarner, American baseball player[†]
Madison Kyle Bumgarner, nicknamed "MadBum", is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. Previously, he pitched in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Francisco Giants (2009–19) and Arizona Diamondbacks (2020–23). Bumgarner has won three World Series championships and two Silver Slugger Awards. He has also been selected to four National League (NL) All-Star teams and has the most strikeouts in franchise history by a Giants left-handed pitcher. He is considered by many to be the greatest World Series pitcher of all time.
1989Tiffany Young, Korean American singer, songwriter, and actress[†]
Stephanie Young Hwang, known professionally as Tiffany or Tiffany Young, is an American singer-songwriter of Korean descent. Born and raised in California, she was discovered by South Korean entertainment agency SM Entertainment at the age of fifteen and subsequently moved to South Korea. After two years of training, Young debuted as a member of girl group Girls' Generation in August 2007, which went on to become one of the best-selling artists in South Korea and one of South Korea's most widely known girl groups worldwide.
1989John Ogdon, English pianist and composer (born 1937)[†]
John Andrew Howard Ogdon was an English pianist and composer.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]