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Clairvoyance was another talent of Swedenborg's. It has led Duke University's famed Extrasensory Perceptionist Joseph B. Rhine to call him "the pioneer in the work I am doing." At about 6 o'clock one night in 1759, Swedenborg, who was visiting a friend in- Goteborg, suddenly turned pale. A great fire had broken out, he announced, in Stockholm, 325 miles away, and as it spread, he gave out bulletins like a mental radio station...
...resolved to try Europe. In Paris, after his debut in a radio concert, the guest-conducting offers began to flock in. Last season he led 32 concerts, and he has conducted in nine countries, from Israel to Finland. Next season he will be a resident conductor of the Goteborg (Sweden) Symphony...
Gizi, previously hailed by Szepesi for her "moral superiority over her fellow contestants," was ignominiously packed off by plane. Instead of playing in Goteborg and London this week, Gizi will be out of temptation's way, back in the glorious Hungarian People's Republic...
...afternoon of Sabbath eve two British minesweepers spotted their quarry entering Palestine's territorial waters near Haifa. She was a battered, 750-ton freighter jampacked with 1,350 Jewish refugees from Europe bent on entering the Holy Land. She had had a long, hard voyage-30 days from Goteborg, Sweden, which she had cleared as a Greek ship (the Ulua), bound for South America. Now she flew the blue-and-white Zionist flag and her bridge carried a freshly painted name: Chaim Arlosoroff (in honor of a murdered Palestine labor leader...
...Goteborg track meet, Haegg ran a mile in 4:06.2, two-tenths of a second under the record set by Britain's Sydney Wooderson in 1937.* Two days later, at Stockholm, he ran two miles in 8:47.8 -to shatter Finn Taisto Maki's pending out door mark by five seconds and Montanan Gregory Rice's indoor mark by three...