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June 3, 1990

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Headlines from June 3, 1990

The Work Week Grows; Tales From The Digital Treadmill

By Peter T. Kilborn

LEAD: ON Wall Street in the 1960's, there was the theory of the paddling duck. An employee would slip into the office at daybreak, do a couple of hours' hard work and then go out for breakfast. He would amble back as his colleagues arrived and would glide through the day, impressing everyone with his effortless mastery of his chores.

Week in Review Desk1800 words

Eagerness in U.S., Ferment at Home

By Unknown Author

LEAD: Almost breathlessly, everyone from merchants to T-shirt salesmen and gossip columnists awaits the Gorbachev visits to Minneapolis and San Francisco. Page 14. Back in Moscow, Boris N. Yeltsin basked in the absence of his political rival. And there are signs that the Soviet economy is sinking even lower.

Foreign Desk102 words

Postings: Developmental Center; Finding New Use

By Unknown Author

LEAD: As glimpsed by motorists rushing by on the Hutchison River Parkway, the Bronx Developmental Center is an ''elegant summation of modern technology'' that evokes ''the majesty of a rectilinear dirigible,'' according to the AIA Guide to New York City. But with a decline in the hospital's population of profoundly retarded patients, the plaudits of architecture critics are not enough to justify its existence.

Real Estate Desk236 words

Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 30, 1990, covering June 3, 1990.

  1. 1
    Album cover for I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got by Sinead O'Connor

    I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

    Sinead O'Connor

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    9
  2. 2
    Album cover for Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em by M.C. Hammer

    Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em

    M.C. Hammer

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    2
    Weeks
    13
  3. 3
    Album cover for Brigade by Heart

    Brigade

    Heart

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    7
  4. 4
    Album cover for Pretty Woman by Soundtrack

    Pretty Woman

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    4
    Weeks
    9
  5. 5
    Album cover for Poison by Bell Biv DeVoe

    Poison

    Bell Biv DeVoe

    Last week
    7
    Peak
    5
    Weeks
    9

Notable Deaths

Robert Noyce

1990Robert Noyce, American physicist and businessman, co-founded the Intel Corporation (born 1927)[†]

Robert Norton Noyce, nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley", was an American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He was also credited with the realization of the first monolithic integrated circuit or microchip made with silicon, which fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name.

Historical Context for June 3, 1990

In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]