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LEAD: Prices on the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange plunged an average of 53 percent in value today when the market reopened for the first time since Dec. 28.
LEAD: PLOWING through the final thickets of technical and human problems, builders say that the Keck Telescope, the largest and most powerful optical telescope in the world, will be ready to open its huge glass eye to the heavens this spring.
LEAD: In the embattled terrain of New York-area retailing, seven key department-store groups remain in the fight not only for customers but for survival itself in the most difficult period American retailing has faced in decades.
LEAD: Chalk one up for consumer privacy.
LEAD: New Transit Head Named Alan F. Kiepper, a former Houston transit official, was named president of the New York City Transit Authority. Page B1. Athletes on Campus For golfers and tennis players, college is often used as a brief stop to hone the competitive edge en route to the pro tours.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 3, 1990, covering January 9, 1990.
Phil Collins
Milli Vanilli
Billy Joel
Janet Jackson
Paula Abdul
1990Spud Chandler, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1907)[†]
Spurgeon Ferdinand "Spud" Chandler was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed starting pitcher and played his entire career for the New York Yankees from 1937 through 1947.
1990Cemal Süreya, Turkish poet and journalist (born 1931)[†]
Cemâl Süreya was a Turkish poet and writer of Kurdish–Zaza descent.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]