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...remember and reason. Last week in San Francisco, a score of the world's most eminent scientists of the mind heard Swedish Neurobiologist Holger Hyden (pronounced he-dam), 43, offer a theory about the chemistry of thought. Hyden, who is chief of tissue studies at the University of Goteborg, even named a chemical that dictators might use to disrupt the thought process and enslave the minds of their subjects...
...Back home in Goteborg, Sweden's new Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson was whisked from the airport to a local stadium by helicopter, emerged with a boyish grin to walk on a red carpet and display his mighty right hand for 20,000 cheering fans, who paid 40? apiece to greet...
...first European to be world heavyweight boxing champion in 25 years, Sweden's Ingemar Johansson was soundly lionized last week. Vacationing in Florida before returning to Goteborg to enjoy the biggest and loudest victory celebration ever given a homecoming Swede, he drew hordes of females straining for a glimpse of his rugged Scandinavian features. "Ingo" went deep-sea fishing and just missed catching a sailfish, frolicked in a saltwater pool with pretty Birgit Lundgren. She squelched talk that she is Ingo's fiancee, characterized herself as just a good friend who travels with Johansson to take care...
...spreading oak of a lad (204 lbs., 6 ft. ½ in.), Johansson has risen far since he began as a street paver in his native Goteborg. At 26 he swoops along the same streets in a white Thunderbird, bosses $250,000 worth of equipment in the earth-moving business that he runs on the side. The son of a manual laborer, Ingo became the pride of Sweden with a simple public weapon: a devastating right...
...prove their own fortitude (and also that their countrymen eat too much), eleven Swedish vegetarians aged 26 to 44 staged a ten-day fasting hike of 330 miles from Goteborg to Stockholm. Encouraged by pep talks from "Nature Doctor" Arne Wingquist, all but two stood the course, sustained by nothing more potent than plain water. One who fell by the wayside was Wingquist himself, on the ninth day. The marchers' average weight loss en route...