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LEAD: Across the street from Greeley Square, where men and women living out of shopping bags sometimes doze on park benches in the middle of the afternoon, a sleeping giant is awakening.
LEAD: Gov. Mario M. Cuomo yesterday dropped another cryptic hint in New York City's mayoral race when he said he supported the candidate ''who can best bring this city together,'' a remark quickly taken by supporters of David N. Dinkins to mean a tilt toward the Manhattan Borough President.
LEAD: QUASICRYSTALS, a puzzling form of solid matter regarded as impossible until five years ago, have now moved to center stage in a worldwide investigation into the nature of solid matter.
LEAD: Arthur Andersen & Company and Price Waterhouse, the two large accounting firms that had hoped to reach a merger agreement by early this month, are expected to announce shortly that they will need additional time for discussions, several people in the industry said.
LEAD: To those rush hour-commuters who sit immobilized in traffic on the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive, gazing enviously at the helicopters above, take heart. Gridlock has gone airborne. More helicopters, seaplanes, airplanes and blimps are circling Manhattan than ever before. For the last 10 years, the airborne traffic around New York has increased about 5 percent annually, said Lenny Rider, director of heliports for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 30, 1989, covering September 5, 1989.
Richard Marx
New Kids on the Block
Prince
Paula Abdul
Milli Vanilli
1989Elena Delle Donne, American basketball player[â ]
Elena Delle Donne is an American former professional basketball player for 10 seasons as a member of the Washington Mystics and Chicago Sky. Delle Donne played college basketball for the Delaware Blue Hens from 2009 to 2013. She was drafted by the Chicago Sky with the second overall pick of the 2013 WNBA draft, and led the Sky to the 2014 WNBA Finals, where they were defeated by the Phoenix Mercury. Delle Donne was traded to the Washington Mystics in 2017 and led them to their first WNBA championship in 2019.
1989Kat Graham, American actress and singer[â ]
Katerina Alexandre Hartford Graham is an American actress, singer, dancer, and activist. She played Bonnie Bennett on The CW supernatural drama series The Vampire Diaries (2009â2017). Her film credits include The Parent Trap (1998), 17 Again (2009), The Roommate (2011), Honey 2 (2011), Addicted (2014), and All Eyez on Me (2017). In music, Graham has released two extended plays and four studio albums.
1989Craig Smith, American ice hockey player[â ]
Craig Smith is an American professional ice hockey forward for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Nashville Predators in the fourth round, 98th overall, of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.
1989JosĂ© Ăngel ValdĂ©s, Spanish footballer[â ]
JosĂ© Ăngel ValdĂ©s DĂaz, known as JosĂ© Ăngel or Cote, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Sporting de GijĂłn.
1989Ben Youngs, English rugby player[â ]
Benjamin Ryder Youngs is a former English professional rugby union player who played as a scrum-half for Premiership Rugby club Leicester Tigers, and is the all time appearance record holder with 127 caps for the menâs England national team.
1989Philip Baxter, Welsh-Australian chemical engineer (born 1905)[â ]
Sir John Philip Baxter was a British-Australian chemical engineer. He was the second director of the University of New South Wales from 1953, continuing as vice-chancellor when the position's title was changed in 1955. Under his administration, the university grew from its technical college roots into the "fastest growing and most rapidly diversifying tertiary institution in Australia". Philip Baxter College is named in his honour.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[â ]