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THE phone rang. Barbara Reisman's nightmare was on the line. "It was the school nurse," Ms. Reisman recalled. "She said my daughter had seriously injured her foot, and she had to see a doctor right away."
The Senate Banking Committee killed President Bush's nomination of Robert L. Clarke to a second term as Comptroller of the Currency today, first rejecting the nomination and then blocking further consideration of it by the full Senate. Both 12-to-9 votes were strictly along party lines. They came a day after the President and Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady had lobbied the Democratic members of the committee in the hope that they would be able to turn two of them to join the Republican minority and approve Mr. Clarke's nomination to serve another five years as one of the nation's senior banking regulators.
The California Insurance Commissioner today rejected a revised bid for the Executive Life Insurance Company from a group backed by the insurance industry and said he would choose instead between two other competing offers. The commissioner, John Garamendi, said the industry group had failed to come up with sufficient financial backing to make sure that it could handle any further substantial declines in the value of Executive Life's huge junk bond portfolio.
It used to be the evening when Communist leaders gathered in the Kremlin for a solemn ceremony ushering in the premier feast day of their revolution. Today, a descendant of the Romanovs and the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church celebrated the dropping of Lenin's name from this city and President Boris N. Yeltsin decreed a final ban on the Communist Party anywhere in the Russian republic. Formally it was still a state holiday, the long weekend that for decades served as a last spree before the final onset of winter. All across Moscow, St. Petersburg and the rest of what most people and papers now call "the former Soviet Union," at least one reason for the long lines was the traditional need to stock up for the holidays.
Armed with a veto-proof majority in both houses of the Legislature, New Jersey Republicans vowed today to mount an intensive assault on the sweeping program pushed through by the Democrats and Gov. Jim Florio last year. Jubilant, joking and smiling, but leaving no doubt as to who is now in charge in Trenton, the Republican leaders introduced most of their party's victors in Tuesday night's rout of the Democrats as they held a news conference at the State House today. They also reiterated their pledge to roll back about $550 million of the Democratic Governor's $2.8 billion tax package despite indications of another huge budget shorfall next year, even without a revenue cut.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 6, 1991, covering November 7, 1991.
Garth Brooks
Guns N' Roses
Prince And The New Power Generation
Metallica
Guns N' Roses
1991Felix Rosenqvist, Swedish race car driver[†]
Karl Felix Helmer Rosenqvist is a Swedish professional racing driver who currently drives the No. 60 Honda for Meyer Shank Racing in the NTT IndyCar Series. He was named Rookie of the Year for the IndyCar Series in 2019.
1991Tom of Finland, Finnish illustrator (born 1920)[†]
Touko Valio Laaksonen, known by the pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized highly masculinized erotic art, and influenced late 20th-century gay culture. He has been called the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images" by cultural historian Joseph W. Slade. Over the course of four decades, he produced some 3,500 illustrations, mostly featuring men with exaggerated sexual traits, wearing tight or partially removed clothing.
1991Nuri Ja'far, Iraqi psychologist and philosopher of education, (born 1914)[†]
Nuri Ja'far Ali al-Chalabi, better known as Nuri Ja'far, was an Iraqi psychologist, philosopher of education, and author. He wrote more than fifty works on pedagogy, psychology, history, philosophy, thought and literature. After graduating from the Higher Teachers' House in Baghdad, he went to the United States, and received a master's degree from Ohio University in 1948 and a doctorate in philosophy from the same university in the following year. He was a student of John Dewey and majored in neuropsychology.
1991Magic Johnson announces that he is HIV-positive and retires from the NBA.[†]
Earvin "Magic" Johnson Jr. is an American businessman and former professional basketball player. Often regarded as the greatest point guard of all time, Johnson spent his entire career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). After winning a national championship with the Michigan State Spartans in 1979, Johnson was selected first overall in the 1979 NBA draft by the Lakers, leading the team to five NBA championships during their "Showtime" era. Johnson retired abruptly in 1991 after announcing that he had contracted HIV, but returned to play in the 1992 All-Star Game, winning the All-Star MVP Award. After protests against his return from his fellow players, he retired again for four years, but returned in 1996, at age 36, to play 32 games for the Lakers before retiring for the third and final time.
In 1991, the world population was approximately 5,418,735,891 people[†]