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On a night black enough to give the most timid conspirator some courage, guardians of the Cuban Revolution were nowhere to be found on Oquendo Street. "La vigilancia?" a young man named Jorge asked, smiling at a stranger's question and looking around for the neighborhood watch patrol from the beach chair that was his seat during a friend's sidewalk party.
A special Part 2 of SportsMonday today: Seven pages of news and pictures, plus a full list of runners who finished by 7 P.M., starting on page D1. Business Day begins today on page B13.
George Foreman crossed the line between athlete and icon Saturday night. And he did it with a punch he had been saving since the 1970's. The 45-year-old evangelical preacher, his body a portly 250 pounds, became the oldest fighter ever to win a title in any weight class.
THERE is a place in Brooklyn where Fred Lebow used to shout in Yiddish. He would see the Hasidic Jews standing on the sidewalk and he would stand up in the pace car and exhort them to cheer, to clap, to support the runners. The crowds were sparse in Williamsburg back then, and the Hasidic men in their suits and long black coats mostly stared back at Lebow. What was a man who looked just like them doing in a gaudy track outfit, standing up in an open car, shouting at them?
The four-way race for governor of Connecticut is getting closer, the latest poll shows. In New Jersey, the undecided will likely determine who wins the Senate race. Page B7.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 2, 1994, covering November 7, 1994.
Soundtrack
Scarface
Queensryche
Boyz II Men
The Offspring
1994Gervonta Davis, American boxer[†]
Gervonta Bryant Davis, also known by his nickname "Tank", is an American professional boxer. He has held the World Boxing Association (WBA) lightweight title since 2023, having previously held the Regular version from 2019 to 2023. He also held the International Boxing Federation (IBF) super featherweight title in 2017, the WBA super featherweight title twice between 2018 and 2020, and the WBA super lightweight title in 2021.
1994Haruna Iikubo, Japanese singer and actress[†]
Haruna Iikubo is a Japanese actress and former pop singer. She is a former tenth-generation member and sub-leader of the pop group Morning Musume and former model for the Japanese fashion magazine Love Berry.
1994Algee Smith, American actor and singer[†]
Algee Smith IV is an American actor and singer. After appearing in several small television roles, Smith first rose to fame portraying Ralph Tresvant in BET's The New Edition Story miniseries. The same year, he garnered critical acclaim as Larry Reed in Kathryn Bigelow's film Detroit. He is also known for his role as football player Christopher "Chris" McKay in the HBO drama series Euphoria.
1994Shorty Rogers, American trumpet player and composer (born 1924)[†]
Milton "Shorty" Rogers was an American jazz musician, one of the principal creators of West Coast jazz. He played trumpet and flugelhorn and was in demand for his skills as an arranger.
1994WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, launches the world's first internet radio broadcast.[†]
WXYC is an American radio station broadcasting a college radio format. Licensed to Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, the station is non-commercial and run by students of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The station is owned by Student Educational Broadcasting, Inc. The station operates with an effective radiated power of 1,100 watts, across 900 square miles, from an antenna height above average terrain of 147 meters (482 ft).
In 1994, the world population was approximately 5,675,551,255 people[†]