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Clyde Haberman NYC column describes scene at conference on Alzheimer's Disease sponsored by New York City's Department of Aging at New York Hilton (M)
Rally in Tehran on 20th anniversary of seizure of US Embassy is attended by only about 5,000 Iranians, and many in crowd, especially young, seem to have trouble working up any animosity toward US; Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Muslim cleric who leads country, urged Iranians to show that time has not exhausted passions that drove out shah, and with him US; photo (M)
Avon Products Inc's president and chief operating officer Andrea Jung is named chief executive, replacing Charles Perrin; Jung and three other women at company were passed over in favor of Perrin, outsider with no experience in direct selling or cosmetics, 18 months ago; Avon board is counting on Jung to revive business that is facing tougher competition, slowing sales in US and credibility issue with disappointed investors and analysts; graph; photo (M)
Souped-up cars and fancy equipment are on view at Special-Equipment Market Assn trade show in Las Vegas; photos (S)
DaimlerChrysler will phase out venerable Plymouth name; highlights of models since 1928; photos (S)
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 3, 1999, covering November 5, 1999.
Santana
Backstreet Boys
Creed
Lou Bega
Britney Spears
1999James Goldstone, American director and screenwriter (born 1931)[†]
James Goldstone was an American film and television director whose career spanned over thirty years.
1999Colin Rowe, English-American architect, theorist and academic (born 1920)[†]
Colin Rowe was a British-born, American-naturalised architectural historian, critic, theoretician and teacher. He is acknowledged to have been a major theoretical and critical influence in the second half of the twentieth century on world architecture and urbanism. During his life he taught briefly at the University of Texas at Austin and, for one year, at the University of Cambridge in England. For most of his life he was a professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Many of Rowe’s students became important architects and extended his influence throughout the architecture and planning professions. In 1995 he was awarded the Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects, its highest honor. He was also awarded the Athena Medal from the Congress for the New Urbanism posthumously in 2011.
In 1999, the world population was approximately 6,089,006,339 people[†]