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WOLMI (Moon Tip) ISLAND was a rather useless place. Its only local reputation was as an off-the-cuff summer resort for the town of Inchon, to which it is joined by a long causeway. The northern end of the tiny island had boasted a large inn, complete with swimming pool, where Inchon's successful merchants could enjoy the summer breezes. After the Communists invaded South Korea, they set up a small guard unit on the island, ringed it with earthworks and hastily dug trenches...
Going farther along the road toward the causeway I found a desperately wounded North Korean. "Salyo chu sio [Help me!]," he croaked, waving his hands at his conquerors. Almost all his clothing had been blown off except for a pair of new Russian boots. I watched him grow weaker while he gestured. A minute later he fell back into the dust-dead...
Harvard, vintage 1775, will interest viewers. While the gawkers will recognize Massachusetts or Hollis halls, they will be surprised to see apple orchards covering the regions of Sever and Lamont. Boylston st., which football crowds follow to the Stadium, is nothing but a stone causeway across a swamp. The land under Dunster House is a dock for boats, and a pond lies behind Billings & Stover's present location...
...Singapore's Bukit Timah race track the British wet their upper lips with gin & bitters and kept them stiff even when Miss Papillon, a 70-1 long shot, romped home in the third race. That was bad, but the news from across the Johore Causeway to the Malayan mainland was worse...
...Last Straw." Ship's-Boat Leader R. Brett rowed from his ship to the beaches, found to his surprise "a causeway about eight feet wide heading out into the water." This "causeway" soon turned out to be "a perfectly ordered straight column of men about six abreast . . . When I reached them, a sergeant stepped up to me and said, 'Yes, sir. Sixty men, sir?' He then walked along the column, which remained in perfect formation, and detailed the required number...