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...Baldy the Chinese displayed big cardboard Picasso "peace doves," ran up red, yellow and pink flags, and erected on the crest a huge sign proclaiming "celebration for the signing of the armistice." While G.I.s ogled. Chinese and North Korean girls, in pigtails and with slacks rolled above the knee, sang plaintive songs into hillside microphones and invited their audience to "come on over and talk...
...infants slumbered on their backs. Old men with black "birdcage" hats and two-foot-long pipes squatted, low down on their haunches, in front of ruined huts. Refugees, haggard and desperate, journeyed a long road, furniture and bedding piled high on "A-frame" and head, bound for a filthy cardboard shack which they would then call home. Before entering it, they would remove their shoes...
...craze spread from the movies to the press. By last week 3-D publishing was being tried everywhere. Viewed without glasses, the 3-D magazines and newspapers all looked like off-register red and green (or red and blue) color printing. Viewed with glasses (usually attached), they gave a cardboard-cutout, black & white third-dimensional effect. Items...
First to appear outside the U.S. correspondents' billets in Seoul one day last week were ranks of pigtailed schoolgirls, trim and neat in starched white uniforms. While a few girls passed out handbills in English, leaders with cardboard megaphones set up a steady chant: "Puk chin, tong il (March north for unification)." The leaders glanced frequently at their directions on bits of note paper. Soon one among the leaders began to sob and weep. Younger girls took the cue, contorted their faces with grimaces of rage and fury. The chant became shrill, strident, then hysterically out of hand...
...stately town house for a 5 a.m. appointment to arrange a peeress' coiffure. Special trains shuttled underground from South Kensington to Westminster Station to take dignitaries to the Abbey in time for the 8:30 closing of doors. The "Peers' Specials" were crammed with lords clutching cardboard boxes containing their robes and coronets, with pages suffering the chilly embarrassment of tights. At the Abbey entrance, a coronet fell from one peer's hand, clattering along the wet pavement until a soldier retrieved...