For his sins, my Boss speaks eight languages...

That looks Polish.

PASEK, - this translates to BELT (but I think here it's the name of the Author ie Z PASEK)

Novy zpiisob urceni zakladnich dynamickych parametru stejnosmern6ho motoru'

The above 'roughly' translates to "A new way to dynamically control motor parameters"

Elektrotech. Obzor., 1962, 51, pp. 109-114

This refers to a publication... most probably in Polish. I hope it's not from 1962...