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...death in a concentration camp. Wounded and captured in France, he escaped to Britain and joined its army at 16. After serving in postwar Berlin as a press officer (he speaks at least eight languages fluently), Maxwell acquired a small company in 1949 that he built into Pergamon Press, an important publisher of scientific and educational books...
...addition to the Daily Mirror, Maxwell controls Macmillan Publishing Co., Pergamon Press--the world's largest scientific publishing company, and the Berlitz School of Language. He has recently launched The European, an English language weekly newspaper, which caters to the 12 member countries of the European Community...
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...
Encyclopedias from Pliny's Historia naturalis of A.D. 77 to the contemporary Britannica have sought to distill the sum of human knowledge. Now British Playwright Ronald Duncan, 63, and Miranda Weston-Smith, 21, have tried a different approach. They have edited and just published The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance (Pergamon Press; $30), a 450-page volume that makes a brave attempt to encompass much of what man does not know. Say the editors: "Compared to the pond of knowledge, our ignorance remains atlantic...