Word: setting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...cover, LIFE had run a glamorous photograph of TV Star Faye Emerson with chignon. The fashion magazines were embracing the false buns, braids and curls with the ecstatic gushes and gurgles which seasonably propel new fashion twists across the nation. And milliners were joyfully proving that a whole new set of hats would be necessary. A really modish woman was expected to carry extra chignons with her (cost: $7.50 to $150 each) and to be ready to run the gamut, from Gibson Girl curls to Marie Antoinette birdcage, in one working...
...first the people of Pyongyang had little reason for resentment. Besides posters, sound trucks and propaganda squads, the Russians also brought with them carefully trained cadres of civilian political officers. These functionaries, most of them Russian-indoctrinated Koreans, had their offices set up only 48 hours after their arrival, and the offices really worked. There was little hunger in Pyongyang, because the Russians got rice into the city promptly and distributed it as fairly as possible. The Russians also insisted that their military government would last only so long as it took to set up an independent "people...
Elder La began to notice the men with the green hatbands again when Kim II Sung set up the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea and installed a new national police chief. The difference was that now the men with the green hatbands were Koreans instead of Russians...
...work is complicated by a high-level snafu. U.S. Civil Assistance Teams have been given no clearly defined political objectives, and each team is theoretically responsible only to the U.S. tactical commander in its area. In the Pyongyang area the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team is trying to set up local administration in the small communities around the city. The airborne officers are working hard, but they are not trained for the work, and it seems doubtful that their efforts will have any lasting effect...
Since its incorporation 25 years ago, the Toronto suburb of Forest Hill Village has grown into a typical, well-to-do community, with handsome houses .set off by spacious lawns from the tree-lined streets. Its civic boosters proudly call it "the richest square mile of residential area in Canada." The village has also become the chief residential zone of prosperous Toronto Jews, who today make up 40% of its 18,-ooo inhabitants. There has been little anti-Semitic friction in Forest Hill, however; the village long has been proud of that...