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LEAD: Many Jewish voters in Midwood, an increasingly Orthodox section of Brooklyn where Mayor Edward I. Koch won 8 of every 10 votes in the Sept. 12 Democratic primary, have harbored a single, almost obsessive concern about David N. Dinkins - the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
LEAD: The trust that owns the majority of the Manville Corporation's stock and was intended to help the company resolve its asbestos liability is exploring the sale of the company or putting it into private hands, trust officials said yesterday.
LEAD: COMPANIES UAL's stock rebounded after plunging $33 early in the day and closed down $8.375, at $170. The recovery was spurred in part by rumors of stock purchases by two large investors. [ Page D1. ] The proposed takeover of United Airlines is a certain nominee for Wall Street's worst deal of the year.
LEAD: An innovative and widely promoted effort to sell plastic products that are ''degradable'' could be causing more environmental problems than it is solving.
LEAD: AS the time approached to set his entry on the scales for the city's 83d Pumpkin Show weigh-in, David Mangione, an agricultural extension agent in nearby Chillicothe, shook his head.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 25, 1989, covering October 25, 1989.
Janet Jackson
Milli Vanilli
Motley Crue
The Rolling Stones
Paula Abdul
1989Filip Grgić, Croatian taekwondo practitioner[†]
Filip Grgić is a taekwondo practitioner from Croatia.
1989Sten Grytebust, Norwegian footballer[†]
Sten Michael Grytebust is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Aalesund.
1989David Hala, Australian rugby league player[†]
David Hala is a Tonga international rugby league footballer who plays for the Redcliffe Dolphins in the Queensland Cup. He previously played for the Brisbane Broncos and the Gold Coast Titans in the NRL. He made his NRL debut in round 21 of the 2009 NRL season.
1989Ivan Marconi, Italian footballer[†]
Ivan Marconi is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie B club Virtus Entella.
1989Mia Wasikowska, Australian actress[†]
Mia Wasikowska is an Australian actress. She made her screen debut on the Australian television drama All Saints in 2004, followed by her feature film debut in Suburban Mayhem (2006). She first became known to a wider audience following her critically acclaimed work on the HBO television series In Treatment (2008). She was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female for the film That Evening Sun (2009).
1989Mary McCarthy, American novelist and critic (born 1912)[†]
Mary Therese McCarthy was an American novelist, critic and political activist, best known for her novel The Group, her marriage to critic Edmund Wilson, and her storied feud with playwright Lillian Hellman. McCarthy was the winner of the Horizon Prize in 1949 and was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, in 1949 and 1959. She was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the American Academy in Rome. In 1973, she delivered the Huizinga Lecture in Leiden, the Netherlands, under the title Can There Be a Gothic Literature? The same year she was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She won the National Medal for Literature and the Edward MacDowell Medal in 1984. McCarthy held honorary degrees from Bard, Bowdoin, Colby, Smith College, Syracuse University, the University of Maine at Orono, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Hull.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]