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...Tito's headquarters. He clearly grew to like Tito as a man, while disliking nearly everything the man symbolizes. Maclean quotes the old Balkan adage-"Behind every hero stands a traitor"-in an attempt to explain the ambiguities of the Croatian farm boy who managed to outwit and outfight the Nazis, defy his allies of both East and West, survive the deadly infighting in his own Yugoslav Communist Party and, so far, dodge the assassins who lie in wait for tyrants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Who Survived | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...street corner. Driven out of the home by an unpleasant family situation, the typical Cambridge delinquent finds companionship and prestige as a member of the gang. Within the gang itself, he may also gain prestige as a leader. This post usually falls to the boy who can outfight his contemporaries...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: A Cancer in Cambridge: Juvenile Delinquency | 1/25/1957 | See Source »

...public performance and fame of Senator McCarthy have succeeded, as has nothing else in modern U.S. history, in laying U.S. national behavior open to the most ludicrous caricature. Into the deadly struggle to turn back Communist aggression, to outsmart and outfight Communist parties threatening France and Italy, there suddenly seems to be injected a moment of farce, of hysteria edging on madness, when the news tickers of the world click out the report that Senator McCarthy is hot on the trail of a suspect typist trapped in the Pentagon labyrinth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENSURE FROM EUROPE: How McCarthy Hurt the U.S. Cause | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...every department of the game the varsity hockey team looked terrible last night. Not only could B.U. outstickhandle, outskate, and outfight the Crimson, but they could score at will--14 times, to be exact, while Harvard got only three goals. The Crimson, playing its worst game of the season, was never in contention...

Author: By James M. Storey, | Title: B.U. Sextet Beats Crimson, 14-3 | 2/26/1952 | See Source »

Mystery Man. To grab Ebro, Juan March had to outwit and outfight a foe as powerful, mysterious and secretive as himself: Dannie N. (for Nusbaum) Heineman, who, at 78, looks startlingly like the late J. P. Morgan, has some of Morgan's mania for collecting (he owns a collection of original manuscripts of De Maupassant, Mozart and Goethe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Second Battle of the Ebro | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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