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David McCallum, now 64, reflects on long acting career and enduring fame for 1960's role as Ilya Kuryakin in television series The Man from Uncle; interview; he is currently appearing in New York in Alan Ayckbourn's Communicating Doors; photos (M)
Twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, almost evenly divided between citizens of African and Indian descent, is experiencing burst of investment and growth; thanks to belated realization that its substantial natural gas reserves may prove to be even more valuable than its oil, Trinidad is rapidly emerging as region's foremost economic success story; since beginning of boom less than five years ago, 50 American companies now operating in Trinidad have invested more than $4 billion, remarkable figure in country with only 1.3 million people; seeking to take advantage of cheap and abundant energy supplies, petroleum, chemical and steel companies from Britain, Canada, Germany, India, Norway and Spain are also flocking to Trinidad and Tobago; Trinidadian oil and gas industry consultant says that in process, country is becoming industrialized and turning into Caribbean tiger; charts compare Trinidad's gross domestic product per person with those of Jamaica, Haiti and Dominican Republic (L)
Dr W Hubert Keen, interim president of Old Westbury campus of State University of New York, in speech to college on Sept 4, will call for higher admissions standards, more rigorous general education base and less reliance on taxpayer support; he will also recommend 'zero tolerance' policy to remove students who break campus rules, as well as substantial building and repair program; Old Westbury campus has had reputation for having some of weakest students and lowest graduation rates among SUNY's 64 colleges; Keen photo (M)
Chaotic stock market sparks fears that merger plans of some companies will fall apart and has created additional risk for traders who specialize in takeover stocks; perhaps biggest unknown for such traders, known as arbitragers, is AT&T's pending acquisition of Tele-Communications Inc; since June 24 agreement between companies, AT&T's stock has fallen nearly 20 percent, while Tele-Communications' stock has fallen 13 percent (M)
Catcher Mike Piazza says he is enjoying playing for New York Mets as they try to win wild card playoff spot; photo (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 2, 1998, covering September 4, 1998.
Korn
Beastie Boys
Snoop Dogg
Soundtrack
*NSYNC
1998Neru Nagahama, Japanese television personality[†]
Neru Nagahama is a Japanese television personality, television presenter, and actress. She is a former member of the idol girl groups Keyakizaka46 and Hiragana Keyakizaka46 and current chairperson of the Tokyo Idol Festival.
1998Ernst Jaakson, Estonian diplomat (born 1905)[†]
Ernst Rudolf Jaakson was an Estonian diplomat whose contribution was to maintain Estonia's legal continuity with his uninterrupted diplomatic service for 69 years.
1998Elizabeth Kata, Australian author and screenwriter (born 1912)[†]
Elizabeth Colina Katayama was an Australian writer known by the pseudonym Elizabeth Kata, best known for Be Ready with Bells and Drums (1961), made into the award-winning film A Patch of Blue (1965).
1998Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two PhD students at Stanford University.[†]
Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI). It has been referred to as "the most powerful company in the world" by the BBC and is one of the world's most valuable brands. Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc., is one of the five Big Tech companies alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.
In 1998, the world population was approximately 6,007,066,690 people[†]