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Profuse with C scrolls and S curves, rococo has often been labeled an interior decorator's art. In courtly architecture, such as Munich's dainty Amalienburg palace, plaster tendrils so slather the rooms that the ceiling is inseparable from the walls. Rococo was ornament become form, rather than the link between forms. It added asymmetry to the earlier style of baroque art, as one would add fantasy to fiction. Where the baroque was epic, rococo was lyric. It had a horror of straight lines, as if such were the symbols of reason and order...
...Chicago, was born to keep up with technology: the original building was part of the Columbian Exposition of 1893. For a while afterward it was the home of the Field Museum of Natural History. Reconstruction began in 1926, after Merchant Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald returned from a visit to Munich's famed Deutsches Museum, which pioneered in developing industrial exhibits the visitor could operate. He and his eight-year-old son William, were fascinated. Rosenwald gave the equivalent of $8,000,000 in Sears, Roebuck stock, and by the time of the 1933 Century of Progress fair, the Museum...
Avon Products has set up production in France in recent months, has just announced that it will build a new plant near Munich next spring. General Electric bought into France's Machines Bull (49%) and a German electrical appliance maker, is now negotiating for a share of Italy's Olivetti. IBM, whose investments throughout Western Europe are extensive, has built a striking new research laboratory at La Gaude, outside Nice. Willys has just announced plans to build a new Jeep assembly plant in Brazil, and General Mills is negotiating a joint venture to make cornflakes in Japan...
...resisted the Nazis. Helmut Huebener, 17, was guillotined for writing some 20 pamphlets denouncing the Nazi destruction of Warsaw and Rotterdam. Hans and Sophie Scholl, a handsome brother and sister who seemed outwardly to be the outdoor-loving prototypes of Hitler youth, organized an underground at the University of Munich. Under the romantic name of the White Rose, they authored pamphlets eloquently attacking the regime. After one particular Nazi outrage, they openly distributed the leaflets around the university, even scattered them from rooftops in the vain hope of inspiring an uprising. Agents of the dread Gestapo carted them...
Despite such popular performance, the railroad suffered a $100 million deficit last year. The proud boss of the Bundesbahn's 470,000 employees, President Heinz Maria Oeftering, 60, a Munich-born onetime law professor, blames the loss not on the expensive extra service but on the "wholly extraneous expenditures" that the government makes the railroad bear. Although its long-haul passenger trains make money and lucrative freight accounts form 60% of its revenues, the Bundesbahn has to carry such privileged patrons as commuters, students, workers and war veterans at government-dictated cut rates (up to 96% off). An even...