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Clyde Haberman comments on Mayor Giuliani's revealing a lighter, more humorous side to his personality, noting challenger Ruth Messinger's attempts to make campaign issue of his personality, calling him a bully and someone who 'tears people apart' (M)
As New York City school officials prepared this summer to open Harlem elementary school for 500 students in former dry-cleaning plant, New York State environmental officials were examining whether building should be added to state registry of inactive hazardous waste disposal sites, known as Superfund sites; while there are no general legal restrictions on people living or working in Superfund sites--and some remain inhabited even as toxic chemicals are removed--state officials say they are unaware of any other school buildings in state designated as Superfund sites; photo (M)
Hilton Hotels Corp says that it will acquire Atlantic City Country Club from private family, making it only hotel operator in Atlantic City to operate a golf course (S)
At least 300 people in heating, air-conditioning and plumbing industries rally at State House, Trenton, protesting against state govt they say gives unfair advantage to major utility companies trying to encroach upon their businesses (S) (New Jersey Daily Briefing)
Single gunshot shapes fates in 70's Madrid. Sexy film noir from Almodovar.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 8, 1997, covering October 10, 1997.
Boyz II Men
LeAnn Rimes
Mariah Carey
Brooks & Dunn
Master P
1997Michael J. S. Dewar, Indian-born American theoretical chemist who developed the Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson model (born 1918)[†]
Michael James Steuart Dewar was an American theoretical chemist.
1997Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.[†]
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 was an Argentine domestic scheduled passenger flight from Posadas to Buenos Aires. On October 10, 1997, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 that was operating the flight crashed on the lands of Estancia Magallanes, Nuevo Berlín, 32 kilometres away from Fray Bentos, Uruguay. All 74 passengers and crew died upon impact. The accident remains the deadliest in Uruguayan history.
In 1997, the world population was approximately 5,924,787,816 people[†]