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Dates: during 1950-1959
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M.C.A. has built its empire on a simple economic principle; it takes 10% on any contract it makes for its gold-plated clients. It gets 10% from movie stars such as Marilyn Monroe, Gregory Peck, Marlon Brando and Gary Grant; from playwrights such as Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHOW BUSINESS: 10% of Everything | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

Missing Gardner. All this was too much for Bung Karno. By now he had taken a fourth wife-a young, lissome divorcee named Hartini-without bothering to divorce Fatmawati, the mother of his five children. Sukarno took off for a tour of the world's capitals, shopping for new...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: Djago, the Rooster | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

Three Choices. United, which has until mid-1966 to submit a plan to the New Orleans Federal District Court and another four years to comply, has three choices. It can: 1) create a subsidiary, transfer assets to it, then distribute the stock to United stockholders; or 2) sell a partial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Banana Split | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

He hugely enjoys being Adnan the Builder, has developed a technique that is a mixture of bulldozing and infectious persuasion to get what he wants. After he allowed four foreign companies to distribute petroleum products in Turkey, he demanded that they collaborate to build Turkey a refinery. They objected, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: The Impatient Builder | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

After a typical run of humdrum assignments as a U.S. Public Health Service surgeon, Van Slyke found himself at World War II's end investigating the potency of penicillin as a treatment for venereal disease. When the price of penicillin plummeted, freeing money previously earmarked for this project. Van...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Man of Millions | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

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