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...alarm shattered a droning Labor Day in Passaic, N.J., a gritty industrial city of 58,000 that lies practically in the shadow of Manhattan's towers. When fire fighters reached the scene, they encountered what one called "a ball of fire" about 50 ft. high roaring down an alley of the factory complex alongside the city's namesake river. The blaze churned into an inferno that leapt explosively from building to building, incinerating one instantaneously and then--boom!--vaulting on to the next. In the end, some 1,000 fire fighters were powerless to stop it. Fueled by a variety...
...week's end the fire still smoldered upon what Passaic Mayor Joseph Lipari mournfully spoke of as "40 acres of vacant land." Gone were 23 homes, along with 17 buildings that had housed about 60 manufacturers (of plastics, handkerchiefs, chemicals, printed materials) and provided about 2,700 jobs. Damages: approximately $400 million. At least 88 families were left homeless. In one destroyed warehouse were the elaborate costumes for 75 productions of the New York City Opera. Lost also was some of the momentum that Passaic had made in a heroic effort to come back from the bankruptcy it experienced...
...complex enough to merit consideration. For while his "confessions" may be tasteless and disturbing, he tempers them with a sort of pathetic self-pity ("I am not an assassin, but rather a human being with a deep compassion for little children"). He also tells of a ghetto boyhood in Passaic, N.J., and football as his only way out. At every stage of his career, Tatum says, he has been judged mostly by how hard he hits, first by a shrewd high school coach, later by Ohio State's notorious Woody Hayes, and finally by the Raiders...
...fastest race in the world," said the resident of Passaic, N.J., who has watched all the Boston races since he stopped running here. "They start here like they're running a one-mile race and either you keep up or you drop dead. That's the way it was in '36, and it's the same thing...
...second trial the new Passaic County prosecutor, Burrell Ives Humphreys, and his "Carter task force" had a few surprises in store for the defense. A major stunner: Alfred Bello took the stand and calmly recanted his recantation. Calling it a lie, Bello pointed to Carter and Artis as the two men he had seen leaving the bar. Hogan and Raab, he said, had offered him bribes to recant. Moreover, two former defense witnesses backed up the prosecution's contention that either Carter or his former lawyer tried to cook up a phony alibi; they testified this time that they...