Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...black metropolis that flourished in the 1920s; that in no other New York City district can you find the vitality and graciousness of Harlem on a , good day. Maybe, too, the foreigner wants to brag to friends back home that he saw Harlem and survived. Sure enough, on a bus trip run by Harlem Spirituals Inc., the black guide announces -- in German, the language of many of the passengers -- that they are passing the spot "where the late son of the late Senator Robert Kennedy was suspected of buying drugs...
Harlem is certainly not a harmless place for residents or itinerants, but neither is it the city's worst crime area. In any case, fear is no excuse for missing out on Harlem's cultural and historical bounty. Prudent visitors, black or white, can ride a tour bus or a subway uptown during the day, drive or call for a cab at night, stroll with a worthy purpose on a Sunday-go-to- meeting afternoon. They will feel as comfortable on Amateur Night, with its superefficient security staff, as they would at Carnegie Hall. They will be made as welcome...
...these and other sights of Harlem, the anxious white visitor can hop a Harlem Spirituals bus at 9 some Wednesday morning. As the bus heads uptown, a guide sketches a history of the district. A walk through Hamilton Grange and Sugar Hill precedes a stop at the Schomburg Center. And then . . . nirvana. At the Manhattan Christian Reformed Church, a storefront mission run by and for recovering addicts, the Rev. Reggie Williams spins a stirring homily: "You have the power to pray when you wanna party! The power to close your veins to dope and open your brains to hope...
While football's Barry Sanders, Timm Rosenbach and Bobby Humpherey and basketball's Jay Edwards are leaving school before graduation to make their riches in the professional ranks, Fernandez reflects a growing trend of high school stars who are taking advantage of NCAA baseball as an alternative to the bus rides of the minor leagues...
...little over an hour Bussewitz can lead a tour group around all of the arboretum grounds accessible by road. Although cars are not ordinarily allowed into the arboretum, guides conduct bus tours on Sundays...