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LEAD: IT STRIKES about 130 families in New Jersey each year - always without warning, usually in the winter between midnight and 8 A.M.
LEAD: On one of the most built-up streets in Manhattan, Sheldon Werdiger, the project manager for 125 West 55th Street, speaks of creating a park feeling. Though the 23-story office building being developed there by the Harry Macklowe Real Estate Company has two of New York's tallest new buildings as neighbors, it is near a mid-block public plaza and will yield to small plazas of its own on both 55th and 56th Streets.
LEAD: THE HEARTS AND LIVES OF MEN By Fay Weldon. 357 pp. New York: Viking. $18.95.
LEAD: New city restrictions on smoking in offices and restaurants that go into effect on April 6 will also apply to common areas of apartment buildings with 10 or more units. Moreover, no-smoking areas will have to be designated with signs.
LEAD: In January, a few days before Villanova's opening conference game this season, Coach Rollie Massimino sat in a deserted Villanova locker room, stewing about the predictions that the Wildcats would finish near last place in the Big East.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 9, 1988, covering March 13, 1988.
Soundtrack
George Michael
INXS
Tiffany
Michael Jackson
1988Furdjel Narsingh, Dutch footballer[†]
Furdjel Robby Narsingh is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a winger. He formerly played for AZ, Volendam, Telstar, PEC Zwolle, SC Cambuur, De Graafschap and Ararat-Armenia.
1988The Seikan Tunnel, the longest tunnel in the world with an undersea segment, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.[†]
The Seikan Tunnel is a 53.85-kilometre dual-gauge railway tunnel in Japan, with a 23.3-kilometre segment running beneath the seabed of the Tsugaru Strait, which separates Aomori Prefecture on Honshu, Japan's main island, from the northern island of Hokkaido. The tunnel's track level lies approximately 100 metres (330 ft) below the seabed and 240 metres (790 ft) below sea level. Following several decades of planning and construction, the tunnel opened on 13 March 1988.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]