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Never before had inflation hit so hard and so fast. Hot dogs became three dollar beef ingots on a bun. Small bottles of ice-cold water now cost top dollar. Or rather two top dollars.
Although he occasionally flashes back to the Limerick life portrayed in Angela's Ashes, Malachy chiefly recounts what happened to him after his arrival in New York City in 1952, when he was 20. He worked for a while as a longshoreman, gained a reputation as a hard-drinking wit...
THOMAS SANCTON, TIME's Paris bureau chief and roving European correspondent, had no sooner returned from the World Economic Forum in Davos two weeks ago than he did a quick U-turn back to Switzerland to report and write this week's cover story on the Holocaust bank accounts and...
Elan Steinberg, executive director of the World Jewish Congress, calls it "a smoking gun" and a true test of Swiss bona fides. "For 50 years," says Steinberg, "they have been telling us, 'We can't give you any money because you have no records.' Now if they say we still...
The spotlight has also found potentially an even darker corner of Swiss history. Last month the British Foreign Office released a 23-page report titled Nazi Gold: Information from the British Archives, which reveals that an immense amount of gold the Nazis looted from banks and private holdings in occupied...