Table of ContentsCars That Mattered From the Tin Lizzie to the Toyota, some autos were more than a rideBusted for Possession Florida tries to snuff out teen smoking by taking kids to courtThe Silent Friendships of MenBig-Game Hunting Games that simulate hunting are the surprise "killer" application of 1998. Now I know whyNotebookCoverCan't We All Get Along? So asked Steve Searles when a town hired him to solve its bear problemThe Children of Rent From slacker druggies to flying performance artists, a stodgy old medium tries to think youngRussia's Gunpoint Politics In life, Galina Starovoitova was a beacon for democracy. Her murder may prove a turning pointA Power unto Themselves The legendary Rothschilds established a great fortune. A great biography tells how they did itLettersStephen Bechtel Only a man who thought on the grandest scale could build the world's biggest engineering projectsThe Mirror Directed by Jafar PanahiAOL, You've Got Netscape America Online is all set to devour an Internet giant, but how will it feel the next morning?Pilot Of The Jet Age JUAN TRIPPE Though he made flying seem glamorous, Pan Am's founder really helped the rest of us get onboardThat's Retail-tainment! Stores are wooing customers by making the shopping less forbidding, more friendly--and funTerrorism Money Changes All Things, Including LoyaltyWhy Picking These Titans Was Fun Our third TIME 100 list let us wrestle with how we live and workPiano Bravissimo Treasures and pleasures abound in a mammoth CD selection of the century's virtuoso pianistsReuther's Polar OppositeThe Pentagon Should There Be Static On a $17 Billion Hot Line?The Moral Low Ground A prizewinning novel about love and betrayalGuru Of Gadgets AKIO MORITA He made Sony a trusted name everywhere, because a company without borders is one without limitVoracious Inc. Conglomerates roamed the earth during the '60s, eating up smaller firmsBurger Meister RAY KROC McDonald's begat an industry because a 52-year-old mixer salesman understood that we don't dine--we eat and runThe Business Of America Mix entrepreneurial energy with abundant capital. Result: the world's most dynamic economyManaging To Be Best The century's smartest bosses have influence beyond their companiesTechnology Could There Be a Geek Strike in Gates' Future?Is Microsoft Off the Hook?Lion Of Hollywood LOUIS B. MAYER His MGM was a film factory, with stars as assembly-line workers and a hit formula: chaste romance, apple pie and Andy HardyOther Voices, Too (A Trip Back To Bountiful) Nanci GriffithSuburban Legend WILLIAM LEVITT His answer to a postwar housing crisis created a new kind of home life and culture: suburbiaMonuments Of The Age Just as Egyptians, Greeks and Romans built grand projects that defined the culture and technology of their times, builders of this century made big statements--usually in concreteDiscounting Dynamo SAM WALTON Wal-Mart brought low prices to small cities, but its creator also changed the way Big Business is runBeauty Queen ESTEE LAUDER She turned cosmetics into a big business by making the experience at the sales counter a personal oneA Man for More Seasons In a new book, the martyr is less hallowed but just as poignantDescent Into Madness Riven by ethnic and religious hatred, Indonesia is slipping out of controlForbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act Written and directed by Gerard AlessandriniMedicare Woes Many HMOs are dropping patients over 65. Here's how to make sure you stay well coveredDavid CrossTime For The Ice Floe, Pop In the name of rationality, Kevorkian makes dying--and killing--too easyPeopleDesireless Eagle Eye CherryDriving Force HENRY FORD He produced an affordable car, paid high wages and helped create a middle class. Not bad for an autocratYour HealthThe Rise and Fall of the Original Web Start-UpLeo Burnett He launched today's visual assault on the senses by proving that images, not words, were the nuclear power of advertising. TV proved him rightWorking-Class Hero WALTER REUTHER He built the benefits package that workers now take for granted, from health care to pensions. But his agenda was bigger than unionismHigh Commissioner PETE ROZELLE He hooked us on football as show biz and gave Sunday (and Monday) a new kind of religious significanceWalt Disney The first multimedia empire was built on animation, but its happy toons masked the founder's darker soulKing Of Cool WILLIS CARRIER So it was the humidity! How a kindly engineer from the Snowbelt helped make the Sunbelt boomMaster Of The Mainframe THOMAS WATSON JR. The man who built IBM into a computer giant was racked by angst at the notion of filling his father's shoes. But worry was a relentless motivatorFather Of Broadcasting DAVID SARNOFF RCA's general foresaw radio as a mass medium built around a network, then did it again for television, rearranging living rooms everywhereCriminal Mastermind LUCKY LUCIANO He downsized, he restructured and he used Standard & Poor's as much as Smith & Wesson to change forever the face of organized crimeAmerica's Banker A.P. GIANNINI Anyone with a bank account owes a debt to a produce seller who refused to say noBig Wheels Turning Capitalism not only won, it turned into a marvelous machine of prosperity, led by people who could take an idea and turn it into an industryMain Street Broker CHARLES MERRILL With a fervent belief in the small investor as the foundation of the stock market, "Good Time Charlie" made America the shareholder nationBlessed Barons Rapacious? Sure. But 19th century titans Carnegie, Rockefeller and Morgan set the stage for the empire builders of the 20thOne Hundred Great Things In a century when the consumer became king, product innovation reached unprecedented heightsCrazy And In Charge Brilliant tycoons have had a tendency to get eccentric, or worseWords To Profit By Business coverage is now expansive and honest. It wasn't always soBosses From Hell They don't want to be your friend. You don't want to be their enemySoftware Strongman BILL GATES He controls something the world's PCs can't live without. But he's neither as good nor bad as the hypeGene Fool Society depends on the unattractive to become titans and engineers. Science will threaten the supplyMadam's Crusade A black woman's hair-care empire set a style and smashed barriersPalace Envy By living in monstrous houses, tycoons do us a service: it's easier to resent themYour TechnologyCracking The Ceiling Barriers frustrated women this century. Things are changing fastA Readable Feast Trot off, Teletubbies! Forget it, Furbies! This year's books are tons more funNew Way to Save State college-saving plans offer tax advantages to all and can be used at any school in the U.S.Catching Some Redemption Under coach Dennis Green, the bad-boy and second-chance Minnesota Vikings roll toward a league titleContributorsJungle Fever On the Web In today's retail thicket, Amazon is online kingShowdown For Doctor Death With his latest arrest, Kevorkian pushes the euthanasia debate a grisly step fartherThe Woman in Starr's Trap A Clinton accuser's foe is expected to face chargesUpdateIf You Can't Beat 'Em... As seen on TV: Starr shows us his fuzzy-wuzzy sideThe Victors: Eisenhower And His Boys: The Men Of World War II By Stephen E. AmbroseSteve Jobs: Apple's Anti-GatesYour MoneyMilestonesWanted: A Follow-Up FillipDark Meat Can Babe keep his snout clean in the big bad city?Role Models Paying tribute to a generation of survivors
