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...back of Charlie's vehicle, which is still called the body wagon, although these days the wagon is an 18-ft. Ford truck, blue and gray, license number 20898-E, with 106,892 miles on the odometer. Nearly all the miles were spent going to and from Potter's Field, the burial ground for New York City's poor, and nearly all the miles were driven by Charlie Garcia. "See that blue van," said Charlie, lighting up a cigarette and tearing north on First Avenue. "That's what they use to get the bodies with...
...remarked on Charlie's load, "These passengers are the best. They don't pay, they don't talk back, and they are all one way." Last year 2,698 such passengers took the ferry from City Island across the 2/3-mile-wide channel to Hart Island, site of Potter's Field. In the past 114 years, about 1 million bodies have made the trip...
Vancouver was the last assembly run by Potter, 62, a Methodist minister from Dominica whose special concern is poverty and oppression in the Third World. He is expected to retire in 1985, after 13 years in office. His replacement will be chosen by the 145-member central committee elected last week, with the Rev. Heinz Joachim Held of West Germany, 55, as its new presiding officer. For Held and Potter's successor, the council's delicate balancing act will undoubtedly continue without letup. -By Richard N. Ostling
foreign policy line; former New Jersey Senator Nicholas Brady, a quintessential Eastern Establishment Republican; retired Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, who is known for his nonideological legal approach; Political Analyst Richard Scammon, a neoconservative Democrat and close friend of Kirkpatrick's; AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland, a Democrat who holds generally conservative foreign policy views but whose sensitivity to human rights has been accented by the murder of two labor representatives in El Salvador; National Federation of Independent Business President Wilson Johnson, a moderately conservative Republican from San Mateo, Calif.; and Project HOPE Founder and President William Walsh...
Much as shibusa informs the eye of the cutler or potter or flower arranger, it must have informed the eyes of the designers of the Flamingo. This record player plays the disc as it stands upright, and thus becomes a source not only of sound but also of sculptural beauty...