Word: bentsion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week another herd of defendants, 23 in all, faced a Moscow court -charged with having organized the biggest wheeler-dealer operation yet reported, a flourishing textile business that netted $3,300,000 in four years. The Russian press gave this account: one Bentsion Roifman, a public-health functionary in a Moscow workers' district, bribed his way into a job overseeing several physical therapy workshops for mental patients. Enlisting some aides, Roifman proceeded to convert the workshops to his own use. He brought into the scheme state factory executives from as far away as Leningrad and the Ukraine...
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