Word: jerseyed
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David Friedland was supposed to have drowned in a 1985 scuba-diving accident off the Bahamas. Last week the former New Jersey state senator and convicted extortionist was resurrected. After faking his watery death, Friedland, 50, spent 27 months as one of America's most wanted fugitives. Leading U.S. authorities on a long and costly chase across the globe, Friedland finally landed on the island of Male, in the Maldives archipelago off the coast of India. There he was the flashy proprietor of a chain of upscale scuba-diving boutiques until his recent arrest by Maldivian authorities...
...Government's action was, ATV critics are not satisfied. Consumer groups and some Congressmen contend that Washington should recall all of the 1.5 million three-wheel ATVs still in use in the U.S. and force manufacturers to give purchasers a refund. Says James Florio, Democratic Congressman from New Jersey: "How can anyone truly concerned with safety in effect say 'Tough luck' to people who currently own these unsafe vehicles?" Government officials defend their action, maintaining that a recall would cause a lengthy court battle...
...states to lift the 55-m.p.h. limit on divided highways in rural areas that meet interstate safety standards. Those who knew of the provision feared that further debate might threaten other, more delicate compromises contained in the spending bill. That infuriated Transportation Committee Chairman James Howard of New Jersey, who wrote the 1974 legislation that slowed down the national speed limit to 55 m.p.h. "What outrages me," he says, "is that this major policy change happened in an appropriations bill. It sort of got buried...
That, however, does not keep him from rhapsodizing about an instrument he describes as an overgrown version of the xylophone, nor from doggedly pursuing his lonely calling. The New Jersey-born Stevens, 34, was first enchanted as a teenager by the distinctive sound of the marimba, the glowing, burnished, unpercussive tone that wafts from the four-plus-octave wooden instrument when it is struck with mallets. "I had never heard such a full and beautiful tone," recalls Stevens, who had been a high school rock drummer. "I could do all the rhythm things, and I also had melody...
Welcome to Wrestling from New Jersey -- er, The Morton Downey Jr. Show, TV's wildest talk program. Since its debut two months ago on WWOR, the Secaucus, N.J.-based superstation, Downey's verbal slugfest has made Phil's and Oprah's "lively" discussions look like sherry-sipping college seminars. Critics are appalled ("A disgrace to television," said Kay Gardella of the New York Daily News), but ratings are rising, and blue-collar fans are flocking to the studio for tapings. After just two weeks, all the seats were booked through the end of the year...