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...completely new in Europe. It has been tried without notable success by smallish markets in Normandy and Sweden, and at least one big Swedish food chain has rejected electronic shopping. "Our customers wouldn't enjoy running around collecting cards instead of merchandise," says Paul Brundin of Gothenburg's Turitz & Co. "Shopping should...
Sausages & Scholars. Göttingen's grandeur goes back to 1736. when Hannover's Elector George August, who also happened to be Britain's King George II, launched the university in a hamlet then so obscure that his courtiers at first thought he meant Gothenburg in Sweden. To publicize the place. George put the school in charge of an imaginative baron named Von Münchausen-a cousin of the famous liar. By 1770 it was Germany's most important university...
...steered Volvo (meaning "I roll" in Latin) into his nation's second biggest industry (estimated 1961 sales: $350 million) and, until his 1956 retirement from its active presidency, hung onto the boxy "bumblebee"-styled auto he believed sold for utility not beauty; of cancer; in Gothenburg, Sweden...
...picture tells two stories at once, playing one against the other for satiric effect. Two women, a middle-aging fashion editor (Eva Dahlbeck) and her young photographers' model (Harriet Andersson), go to Gothenburg, a city in southwest Sweden, on a story assignment. First day in town, the editor puts through a call to a lover she has lost, a pleasant but bored businessman (Ulf Palmer), and persuades him to see, her again. Caught in a mood between renascence and relapse, they make love in her hotel room. Abruptly he decides to go away with her. A knock comes...
Unhinged. In Gothenburg, Sweden, during an exhibition of gadgets called "Stop the Thief," someone made off with five thiefproof locks...