Word: pergamon
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Maxwell was put in charge of allocating paper and printing supplies in the British zone of Berlin. He soon went to London to found Pergamon Press, a publisher of scientific journals. His business and reputation grew rapidly; by 1964 he was elected to the House of Commons as a Labor M.P. But in 1971 the Department of Trade and Industry concluded that he was guilty of misrepresenting his company's financial position. He came close to losing Pergamon. Questions were raised about mysterious family trusts held in Liechtenstein...
...serves as an interesting guidebook to the official Soviet position on matters both practical and ideological, as well as offering Chernenko's-and presumably the Soviets'-view of the world. Herewith, excerpts from the English-language version of the book, which will be reprinted in paperback by Pergamon Press of Oxford next month under the title Selected Speeches and Writings...