John Tierney column contends that most Americans are probably glad that no expense was spared to find John F Kennedy Jr's plane; maintains that many of them might also have hard time justifying government's extraordinary efforts in case, which officially was nothing more than relatively routine accident involving private citizen; holds that one way to reconcile public's conflicting sentiments would be for someone other than taxpayers to pay for salvage operation; suggests that news media should reimburse government for rescue-and-recovery bill; says New York's publishers and broadcasters can afford to pay portion of profits they have made off Kennedy this week, not to mention last 38 years (M)

The Big City; Public Price For the Loss Of a Kennedy

David Ogilvy, pioneering advertising executive, dies at age 88; photos (M)

David Ogilvy, 88, Father of Soft Sell In Advertising, Dies

Interview with Melissa Bank, author of best-selling The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing; photos (M)

So Familiar, So Private

Article on Cleveland Indians outfielder Manny Ramirez in view of upcoming series against New York Yankees notes that he has batted in 101 runs in 85 games this season; photo (M)

It's a Daily Production for Ramirez

Harvey Araton Sports of The Times column notes that Tampa Bay Devil Rays third baseman Wade Boggs is knocking on door of 3,000-hit club with 2,986 career hits; photo (M)

Sports of The Times; Boggs Stays Well Ahead Of the Curve

Cincinnati Bell agrees to acquire IXC Communications for $2.1 billion; IXC created great asset in 13,000-mile fiber optic communications network, but failed to developed advanced communications services and internal systems that would allow it to translate asset into generator of sustainable profits; IXC's investors, led by Richard D Irwin, president of Grumman Hill Associates, have decided they could place company in more capable hands by selling it; Benjamin L Scott was stripped of president and chief executive titles in May, and on July 19 Irwin replaced him as chairman (Market Place) (M)

THE MARKETS: Market Place; Merger Deal With Plenty Of Intrigue

Article on innovative beach houses created in Hamptons in 1950's and 1960's by architect/designer Andrew Geller; photos (M)

In Search of Fun Among the Dunes

Fidelity Investments, Charles Schwab Corp, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Spear, Leeds & Kellogg plan to form electronic stock-trading network; venture could quickly become one of best-financed and most efficient of nine computerized stock trading posts known as electronic communications networks, or ECN's; will probably provide stiff competition for biggest networks: Instinet, which is unit of Reuters Group PLC, and Island from Datek Online Holdings Corp as well as Nasdaq stock market itself (M)

Fidelity Joins With Schwab In Electronic Stock Trading

New York Mets beat Montreal Expos, 7-3 (M)

With Reed On Mound, The Mets Move Up

Dozens of social service agencies have not had their expenses reimbursed by Nassau County in months, and officials representing agencies say that some may soon have to turn to layoffs or even closings; County Exec Thomas S Gulotta says there is no connection between Nassau's $200 million budget deficit and lag in reimbursements; Comptroller Frederick E Parola says situation is becoming perilous; Standard & Poor's reduces debt rating on county's revenue anticipation notes to next-to-lowest category (M)

Nassau County Is Late to Pay Social Services

Sister Judith Zoebelein, American nun, built Vatican Web site that went on line two years ago; site delivers basic information about popes of this century, Church administration and Vatican library, museums and archives; Sister Judith, who serves as technical director of site, has plans to upgrade technological equipment and deepen offerings, including audio and video material from life of Pope John Paul II and history of Church; photos (M)

Nun Opens Vatican Doors to the Net

Jennifer Dunning reviews performances of three works by Chinese, Russian and American-Israeli choreographers in annual International Choreographers program at American Dance Festival in Durham, NC; discusses Call of the Wild by Ma Bo and Li Han Zhong and works by Tatyana Baganova, Barak Marshall and Margalit Oved; photos (M)

Choreographic Villages From Around the Globe

First of two articles in series Going After Guns discusses limits on power and zeal of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms; bureau, which faces constant threat of attack by National Rifle Association, has been kept short-staffed and must enforce laws often written to make prosecutions hard; has avoided NRA ire by focusing on criminals who use guns; has been less agressive, until recently, in going after illegal gun traffickers and small number of corrupt dealers who supply guns to criminals and juveniles; graphs comparing number of agents and budgets of bureau and Drug Enforcement Administration; table of gun law provisions that complicate enforcement; photos (M)

Limits on Power and Zeal Hamper Firearms Agency

Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton mounts an exhibition on modern beach houses on eastern Long Island; exhibition catalogues period of architectural experimentation, displaying houses by Peter Blake, Andrew Geller, Charles Gwathmey, Norman Jaffe and Julian and Barbara Neski; photos (M)

Footprints in the Sand From the 60's

Vulcan Ventures, venture capital fund financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, pulls out of its part of planned $300 million investment in Datek Online Holdings Corp, partly because of concerns about criminal and regulatory investigations into on-line brokerage firm; Group Arnault and TA Associates, venture capital firms that had been part of original announcement, sign contracts to complete their investments, though they lower amount to $195 million from expected $225 million to $250 million; Vulcan was expected to invest $50 million to $75 million; Vulcan also drops plans for additional $25 million investment in Island ECN, electronic stock exchange operated by Datek; Allen photo (M)

Vulcan Ventures Withdraws From Planned Investment in Datek

Thousands of people still use old computers out of feeling of nostalgia, desire for simplicity and appreciation for classic design; Douglas Cotton, editor of Commodore World magazine, estimates that million Commodores, in model introduced in 1982, are still in service around world; old Apple computers and Sinclair Spectrums are also popular; one old Apple fan likens it to driving classic car; many users of vintage machines also own up-to-date computers hundreds of times as fast and much more powerful than their old ones; they keep their 8-bit machines around to remind them how they started with computers; several Web sites have been created to buy and sell vintage computers and their components; photos (M)

Living the 8-Bit Dream in a 32-Bit World

Pepon Osorio, recipient of MacArthur Foundation's 'genius' award, has had is hart displayed in Whitney Museum of American Art and Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American Art, but he is staging latest mixed-media installation in store in East Harlem; says he is equally at home in art world and in Latino neighborhoods; photo (M)

An Artist Whose Creations Live Out Among the People

Navy divers retrieve bodies of John F Kennedy Jr, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and Lauren Bessette from plane wreckage, ending five-day search; Sen Edward M Kennedy witnesses recovery; Coast Guard Rear Adm Richard M Larrabee says victims were found 'near and under' fuselage, still strapped in; three bodies will be cremated and ashes scattered at sea from Navy ship; map of crash site; photos (M)

Bodies From Kennedy Crash Are Found

US cyclist Lance Armstrong, who has commanding lead in Tour de France with only four more race days to go, acknowledges that he has been using skin cream, with authorization, that contains corticosteroids, pain-killing drugs that are banned unless prescribed by doctors for health reasons, to treat saddle sores; photo (M)

Armstrong Is Engulfed by a Frenzy Over Salve

Adobe Systems introduces new version of its Pagemaker desktop publishing program, which seeks to address big differences that remain between professionally created and printed brochure and one that has been cranked out of inexpensive color inkjet printer by home-office worker; Pagemaker 6.5 Plus is complex and powerful desktop publishing program that requires considerable effort to learn (M)

Cooking Up Books At Home

House Republican Leaders, scrambling to salvage $792 billion tax cut, win key procedural vote on rules governing debate, 219-208, after rewriting bill to quell revolt by party moderates; agree to tie phased 10 percent cut in personal income tax rates to success in reducing national debt; Senate Finance Committee approves $778 billion tax cut package with features different from House bill; Pres Clinton again threatens to veto either version, news conference; pledges to work with both parties for smaller tax cut; photo (M)

Concessions by G.O.P. Leaders Breathe Life Into Tax-Cut Plan

Employee-owned United Parcel Service of America Inc plans initial public offering of 10 percent stake in company; offering is likely to raise $3 billion to $5 billion, creating windfall for employees; chairman and chief executive James P Kelly says employees and managers will retain 99 percent of voting rights; table of financial data (M)

U.P.S. Going Public And Its Employees Hope for Windfall

Number of abused or neglected children reported to New York City's Children's Services Administration who subsequently died has risen in over three years since death of Elisa Izquierdo, 6, spurred agency overhaul; Children's Rights Inc holds cases show continuing pattern of caseworker and agency errors; city and state officials, while admitting city's child welfare system remains faulty, call Comr Nicholas Scoppetta's reforms most concerted effort in years to improve entrenched system (M)

Pattern Cited in Missed Signs of Child Abuse

Number of mourners outside John F Kennedy Jr's TriBeCa apartment swells with announcement that his body has been found in wreckage of his Piper Saratoga off coast of Martha's Vineyard; many people leave flowers, cards and other offerings; photo (M)

Small Gestures of Grief for a Young Man Larger Than Life

Chinese Pres Jiang Zemin reportedly plans nationwide ban on Buddhist Law, amorphous but fast-growing spiritual movement; arrests of over 100 prominent members in 14 cities has spurred protests by thousands of followers in Beijing and other cities; police reportedly quickly herd into buses and take away members who mass in front of Communist Party compound, Beijing; Li Hongzhi, sect leader, who is now based in United States, uses Internet to communicate with followers; photos (M)

China Said to Prepare Ban on Sect; Protests Go On

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July 22, 1999

Headlines from July 22, 1999

The Big City; Public Price For the Loss Of a Kennedy

David Ogilvy, 88, Father of Soft Sell In Advertising, Dies

So Familiar, So Private

It's a Daily Production for Ramirez

Sports of The Times; Boggs Stays Well Ahead Of the Curve

Billboard 200

Significant Other

Millennium

Ricky Martin

...Baby One More Time

Wild Wild West

Notable Births

Historical Context for July 22, 1999