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LEAD: A FLIMFLAM ad writer could not have invented more outrageous claims. Here is a diet that extends lifespan by 50 percent or more. It prevents heart disease, diabetes and kidney failure, and it greatly retards all types of cancer. It eliminates or forestalls many of the usual banes of aging, including cataracts, gray hair and feebleness.
LEAD: The opening of Universal Studios Florida here in a few weeks will be the start of a head-to-head battle by two entertainment giants for the hearts and wallets of millions of families who visit this area annually.
LEAD: What is the secret of surviving to an extraordinary and vigorous old age -to, say, 50 percent or more beyond a normal life expectancy?
LEAD: Seeking Deadly Thrills An alarming number of teen-agers and children, some as young as 6, are riding atop elevators as they sweep up and down the shafts of New York City highrises. Page B1. A Look at Tokyo Fashion Japanese fashions at the Tokyo fall showings were modest but inventive, offering, among other things, big plaid toggle coats.
LEAD: Because of the last day of Passover, alternate-side parking rules will be suspended in New York City today. Other rules will remain in effect.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 11, 1990, covering April 17, 1990.
Bonnie Raitt
Paula Abdul
Michael Bolton
Janet Jackson
Alannah Myles
1990Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer[†]
Jonathan David Brown is a Welsh professional footballer and former Wales under-21 international who plays as a winger for JD Cymru Premier for Penybont.
1990Ralph Abernathy, American minister and activist (born 1936)[†]
Ralph David Abernathy Sr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was ordained in the Baptist tradition in 1948. Being the leader of the civil rights movement, he was a close friend and mentor of Martin Luther King Jr. He collaborated with King and E. D. Nixon to create the Montgomery Improvement Association, which led to the Montgomery bus boycott and co-created and was an executive board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He became president of the SCLC following the assassination of King in 1968; he led the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C., as well as other marches and demonstrations for disenfranchised Americans. He also served as an advisory committee member of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE).
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]