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...filling a series of postwar industrial posts, Marton took over Sljeme in 1951 when he was 29. He got the job because of his credentials as a trusted Communist, had no formal business training. But he made Sljeme prosper because of his skill as a manager, his ability to outwit competitors and his readiness to adopt the modern techniques and philosophy of capitalism. This was possible because, though all major Yugoslav industry is owned by the state, the state itself does not run businesses. Workers' councils that operate somewhat like boards of directors are elected by the workers, hire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia: Capitalistic Comrade | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

...penicillin tablets, service medics now usually give a long-acting form of the drug by injection. With medicines that must be taken by mouth, like sulfadiazine, the men swallow their pills while still in line, under the relentless eye of a medical officer. Similar precautions in hospitals will outwit any but the most determined evader. But in civilian practice, doctors can do little more than add information and persuasion to their prescriptions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: They Won't Take It | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...live with her; he declines, breaks his engagement, but moves in with his brother and former financee, Valeric. Shortly afterwards he goes to work for an immense corporation called S.B.H., where he learns that his patron, the S.B.H. Chairman Lormier, is a grotesquely arrogant swindler trying perpetually to outwit the Managing Director Hermelin. Loyalty and coincidence commit him to Lormier's side...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Portrait of the Hero as a Bored Young Man | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...from West Berlin's Free University and other schools, it was clear that the Wall would cut off hundreds of classmates who lived in East Berlin but studied in the Western half of the city. Over beer and coffee in a cafe, they devised a daring scheme to outwit the Reds. Cutting classes and neglecting their books, the students blandly named themselves Das Reiseburo (the Travel Bureau) and swung into operation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: The Travel Bureau | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

...third line, although it, too, dominated play on the ice, still lacks some of the necessary finesse to outwit the opposition completely. That, of course, did not stop it, from scoring against B.U. last night. Forwards Heintzman, Dwinell, Beckett, and Bill Lamarche connected for a total of three goals and two assists...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Hockey Squad Overwhelms B.U., 8-1; Varsity Nets Six Goals in First Period | 1/16/1962 | See Source »

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