January 18, 1998

Difficulty of getting innovative new products to market discussed through experience of Doumar Products Inc, which makes un-du, adhesive neutralizer that removes stickers; buyers who managed to find Doumar's booth amid 2,000 at International Housewares Show voice delight with product that company has been trying to market for two years; photos; chronology; Prof Paul Reynolds, who studies entrepreneurs, estimates that of 600,000 to 700,000 businesses started each year less than twenty percent have new product or something distinctive (M)

Mercedes-Benz of North America plans to build 400,000-square-foot headquarters building on 91 acres, Pearl River, NY; rendering (S)

Murray Chass special report notes that baseball has professional sports most stringent policy on owner involvement in legalized gambling ventures; discusses case of Marian Ilitch, who with her husband, Michael, owns Detroit Red Wings of NHL; notes that he also owns Detroit Tigers, but she has denied having any share of team since she became part-owner in future Detroit casino; Chass also discusses case of Edward DeBartolo Jr, owner of San Francisco 49ers who could be indicted in Louisiana on gambling fraud charges; photos (M)

Pres Clinton, in videotaped deposition, defends himself under oath against Paula Corbin Jones's allegations of sexual misconduct; he spends six hours in his attorney Robert S Bennett's office, being questioned by Jones's lawyers; Clinton is first sitting President to have to submit as defendant in civil court challenge; deposition features Jones listening in close attendance and Federal Judge Susan Webber Wright available to settle disputes between legal teams; photos (M)

Interview with Dineh Mohajer, 25, who is in New York introducing latest product line of her cosmetics company, Hard Candy; Hard Candy, which grossed $10 million in 1997, began with a a baby-blue nail polish that Mohajer concocted in her bathroom in 1995; photos (M)