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...Yale Club of New York, across Vanderbilt Avenue from Grand Central Station, dedicated a plaque proclaiming that "near this site" Capt. Nathan Hale (Yale 1773) was hanged by the British in 1776. Previously the marker had been affixed to a slaughterhouse (seven blocks away), now about to be razed for a United Nations building...
...Another road, new to the American tourist, is the road through the town of Bastogne, along the Luxembourg border and south into France. Every kilometer for at least an hour's drive along this route stands a graceful stone marker, about four feet high, with crossed Belgian and American flags carved on it and the simple legend...
...meter hurdles, rested a while under a blanket on the wet ground, and then got up to make a mighty discus heave. But for a while no one knew just how far it was, or whether it would count, because someone had accidentally knocked over the marker showing where the discus fell. For about two hours, raincoated officials plodded around the soggy field looking for the marker. They found it at last, and measured out the longest toss...
...rolling green hills of central Korea, a party of U.S. soldiers and correspondents stopped beside a weathered wooden post. On the post was stenciled in orange paint "U.S. 47." "That's Marker 47," said a G.I. "Over the hill there's another one. That's all there is to the 38th parallel. Just a few posts...
Soon the little gasoline-driven railway coach from the North Korea capital, Pyongyang, pulled up on the Russian side of the border. Russian-trained soldiers of the "Korean Peoples Army" bustled around, escorted two elderly Koreans to ward Marker 47. They were 74-year-old Kim Koo, former chief of the Korean government in exile, and 66-year-old Dr. Kimm Kiu Sic. Alone of South Korean political leaders, they had accepted a Communist invitation to go to Pyongyang. The subject for discussion: how to unify Korea...