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...there it is cold and everyone is tired. Voila! One sees Mile. Pepita. She is as cold and as tired as anyone else, but still smiling." Pepita's uniform, like her rank, is unique: she wears tailored, olive green slacks, a white blouse beneath a woolen khaki jacket and a cerise scarf. In her small tent, which was sieved by mortar fragments last October, there is a salvaged dressing table littered with a dozen perfumes, powders and toilet accessories. Hanging from the tent pole is a Paris wardrobe. "For Tokyo," she explains...
Last week, a plump grandmother of 67, Emma Bellows was not upset at the thought of parting with her last important portrait, but she was still puzzling over one thing. "I know that dress by heart. I made the jacket myself. The skirt was rose-colored, the jacket blue. I don't know why he called it Emma in a Purple Dress...
...Zoll, so he found a teacher at Sarah Lawrence who had belonged to it and tacked her on to the list. One of the "reducators" is a 90-year-old woman professor-emeritus who is too weak to speak over the telephone. Zoll fits her out with a jacket of 43 "subversive" affiliations...
...Look," said a U.N. correspondent, pointing from the window of a press train in Korea one day last week, "here comes our domesticated Communist." Out of a jeep, wearing a trim Eisenhower jacket, climbed burly Jakov Levi, 30, foreign editor of Belgrade's Borba, and first Red newsman accredited to the U.N. forces...
Wearing a green nylon flight jacket, with a frayed cigar clamped in his teeth and an expression of grim satisfaction on his face, Major General Henry Hodes, one of the two U.N. subcommitteemen at Panmunjom, strode out of the conference tent. Allied newsmen trotted up eagerly. "Well," said the general, "we're agreed in principle on that thing...