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Show "We don't see many Americans Ameri-cans from Alaska or Hawaii," a United Nations Visitors Service Serv-ice official apologized. But the other 48 states send a flow of visitors onto the parklike park-like grounds and into the glass-and-marble U.N. headquarters buildings in New York. About 134,000 come yearly in groups representing fraternal orders, churches, schools, scouting and an endless variety of other organizations. or-ganizations. On a typical visit, 31 high school pupils from Ferndale, Mich., toured the General As-; As-; sembly, Secretariat and Conference Con-ference Buildings, sat in on a council session and met a U.N. delegate from India and a representative rep-resentative of the U.N. Children's Chil-dren's Fund (UNICEF). Other recent groups represented the Methodist Seminary of Tennessee, Tennes-see, Kentucky and Virginia and Hanover College, Indiana. However, most visitors come on their own. Over 2 million a year wander in and around the international enclave. In fact, municipal authorities rate the U.N. as one of New York's top five attractions, along with the Statue of Liberty, Lib-erty, Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center and Times Square. |