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...their respect for the profit motive, the laws of supply and demand and the necessity of competition. One of the most remarkable of the capitalistic comrades who are putting the dynamics of the free market to work under Communism is a former partisan fighter and devoted Communist named Velimir Marton. With a spirit and shrewdness that any businessman could envy, Marton took over a small meat-packing plant in the early 1950s, and has turned it into Yugoslavia's largest food company...
Slavonic Bill Holden. Marton, 42, is managing director of Zagreb-based Sljeme Agricultural Industrial Corp., whose sales last year topped $37 million -a fourteenfold increase in eight years. Sljeme (pronounced Slay-me) now owns four farms stocked with 20,000 head of cattle, 100,000 pigs, 2,000,000 poultry, and ponds full of trout and carp. It employs 3,500 workers and has four large factories that produce everything from semiprepared "TV dinners" to pickled pigs' feet for sale in its 60 food stores, eight restaurants and one hotel. And it makes its deliveries in its own fleet...
...scriptwriters: Reporter Ryan, Novelists James Jones and Remain Gary, Scenarists David Pursall and Jack Seddon. The directors: Elmo Williams, Bernhard Wicki, Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald. Among the advisers: General d'Armee Pierre Koenig, Lieut. General James Gavin, Lord Lovat, General Gunther Blumentritt, Frau Lucie-Maria Rommel. A few of the stars: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, Henry Fonda, Richard Burton, Jean-Louis Barrault, Curt Jurgens, Robert Ryan, Rod Steiger, Robert Wagner, Richard Beymer, Mel Ferrer, Jeffrey Hunter, Peter Lawford, Kenneth More, Richard Todd, Leo Genn, Stuart Whitman, Eddie Albert, Edmond O'Brien, Red Buttons, Sal Mineo, Tommy...
...past few years, Miss Sarton has been a Guggenheim Fellow and has also served a term as a Lucy Marton Donnelly Fellow at Bryn Mawr College. She lectured recently at the Johns Hopkins Poetry Festival, and her readings there have just been published in a book called "The Moment of Poetry...
...pulled out of Hungary last week. In the past fortnight, six of the seven remaining reporters for Western wire services and newspapers have either been expelled by the government or voluntarily left Hungary because they were no longer free to gather news. Among the last to leave: Endre Marton, a Hungarian citizen who for ten years has been Budapest correspondent for Associated Press, and his wife, United Press Stringer Ilona Nyilas. The Martons, who were imprisoned in 1955 on trumped-up espionage charges, explained last week that they had no other choice but to flee their country. Other correspondents complained...