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Holocaust never supplies enough surrounding political and economic context for its drama. The adolescent born in 1965, trying to comprehend what happened so long ago, cannot in the 9½ hours find Germany's post-World War I humiliation, its horrific inflation under Weimar, the strange, grasping hopes that so many Germans invested in Hitler. He or she will not understand why the German people allowed it all to happen, a mystery connected to the question of why the Jews did not comprehend everything earlier...
...dollar plunged to a post-World War II low against the Japanese yen, sinking from 236.90 yen at the start of the week to as little as 233.05 before closing at 234.75. Two years ago, a dollar bought 303 yen. Only heavy buying of unwanted dollars by the Bank of Japan managed to contain the decline...
...years of the San Francisco Art Commission, Zellerbach helped establish the city as one of the country's cultural centers. He was also active in international af fairs and in 1957 was named head of the Commission on European Refugees, which tried to find homes for post-World War II displaced persons...
...addition, businessmen will be watching Miller's performance in checking inflation for clues as to whether to launch plant expansion and modernization programs that are needed to keep the recovery rolling. As Miller takes over, it will be entering its 34th month, just about the average length for post-World War II periods of expansion...
Constructivist architecture principally survives on paper. In the inflated, crisis-ridden economy of post-World War I Europe, no financier intended to go broke building glass towers and ideal suburbs that nobody wanted to live in. And quite right too: for little in the history of architecture since the pharaohs quite equals the lofty disregard of human needs-the ordinary instinctive behavior of imperfect people wanting comfort-implicit in so many constructivist/Bauhaus designs...