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DIED. Victor Hasselblad, 72, Swedish inventor of the Hasselblad camera; of cancer; in Gothenburg, Sweden. Born into a family of devoted amateur photography addicts, Hasselblad dreamed of developing his own camera and got a chance to do so for the Swedish air force in World War II. Then in 1948 he introduced the world's first 2¼-in. by 2¼-in. single-lens reflex camera with interchangeable lenses and magazines. It quickly became a favorite of professional photographers, earning a reputation as the Rolls-Royce of its field, and later was adopted by NASA...
...climb in labor costs is not only the result of pay. An even greater problem is absenteeism, which at Volvo's Torslanda assembly plant just outside the Gothenburg headquarters runs to 20% daily. That means Volvo in effect has to pay five employees to do the work of four. Some workers are absent an average of 65 days a year each...
...thefts, of course, are not confined to Italy. In May 1973, during the opening of an ethnographical exhibition in the Konstmuseum at Gothenburg in Sweden, someone made off with a major Matisse, the Girl in White. It was so crudely sliced out of its frame that Matisse's signature was left dangling on a flap of canvas from the stretcher. The painting is still lost...
ENFORCEMENT: Contracts are legally binding, and LO officials deal harshly with any wildcat strike, threatening to expel an offending local from the national union. They are backed by labor courts, which have the power to fine individual strikers. When 1,000 longshore men walked out at Gothenburg last month in Sweden's first sizable wildcat strike in 20 years, they prudently announced in advance that their protest against piecework wages would last only one week...
...keep the foreign hordes coming, the British railroads and the Grand Metropolitan hotel chain have added Paris, Brussels and Gothenburg, Sweden, to a "mini-weekend" shopping special that has already become a hit in Amsterdam. From The Netherlands, it offers travel by train and ferry, plus two days' lodging in London, for $37-less than a round-trip plane fare. Even better news for hard-pressed Britain is an upsurge in foreign orders for British autos. British Motor Corp. expects to increase its deliveries to Europe by 5,000 cars this month. To meet that demand, B.M.C. is switching...