Article November 9, 1987 Issue

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The New York Times

From The New York Times, March 20, 1987

"One recent morning, as the Eighth Avenue bus waddled uptown, the scene inside was more or less what it always is at 9 o'clock. The passengers, swaddled in coats and scarves, were staring moodily out the window. Or at a newspaper. Or at their fingernails.

"The scene outside was what it often is, too—which is to say dreary—until six police horses drew up alongside the bus. They, and it, were waiting for the light to change. Their riders looked good—but it was their mounts that put the passengers to shame.

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