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Series of hailstorms ruins more than 200 million pounds of apples throughout New York State this year; this, together with plunge in apple prices resulting from sharp rise in imports of concentrated apple juice, is forcing several apple farmers to sell their orchards; Jerre Telgheder, owner of Slate Hill Orchard, is one of them; photo (M)
NBC is finding itself on downside of television dominance as aging shows are failing to get big ratings and new shows little promise; NBC's ratings are off by more than 20 percent this fall, a figure higher than NBC expected when it calculated how badly it would be hit by departure of Seinfeld; problems that Scott Sassa, new president of entertainment, will encounter discussed; graph; photos (M)
John Tierney column says voter turnout in New York City, which has historically been low because elections are so dominated by Democratic Party, might increase if city adopted some of the techniques used by old Soviet Union to get out the vote for its truly one-party elections (M)
ONE SPRINTS, ONE ROMPS John Kagwe of Kenya won the men's race by three seconds; Franca Fiacconi of Italy won the women's race by more than a minute. Page F1. AT 41, A STIRRING RUN Joan Benoit Samuelson finished 12th among women, 14 years after winning the marathon at the Los Angeles Olympics. Page F2. A LIST OF FINISHERS Twelve pages of finishers and their times, from No. 1 (J. Kagwe, 2:08:45) to 30,000 (R. Diaz, 5:59:43) and beyond. Page F8.
Surprising variety of plants thrive in vacant half-acre lot in heart of New York City's financial district; Broadway Management, owner, plans to build a hotel topped with 25 stories of rental apartments on site, which was home to Royal Bank of Canada until early 1990's; photos; drawing (M)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 28, 1998, covering November 2, 1998.
Jay-Z
Lauryn Hill
Shania Twain
*NSYNC
OutKast
1998Jordan Love, American football player[†]
Jordan Alexander Love is an American professional football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Utah State Aggies, where he was named to the second-team All-MWC (2018) and was selected as the MVP of the 2018 New Mexico Bowl. After announcing that he would forgo his senior year of college, Love was drafted by the Packers in the first round of the 2020 NFL draft. He served as the back-up quarterback to starter Aaron Rodgers for three years, before being named the starting quarterback of the Packers for the 2023 NFL season. He led the Packers to the playoffs his first two seasons as starter, including a playoff victory over the Dallas Cowboys in 2023. Love signed a four-year contract extension worth $220 million prior to the start of the 2024 NFL season.
1998Vincent Winter, Scottish actor and production manager (born 1957)[†]
Vincent Winter was a Scottish child film actor who, as an adult, continued to work in the film industry as a production manager and in other capacities. He was an assistant director and actor, known for Superman (1978), The Little Kidnappers (1953) and Superman III (1983). He died on 2 November 1998 in Chertsey, Surrey, England, UK.
In 1998, the world population was approximately 6,007,066,690 people[†]