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...chart). Several smaller cities are about to lose their scheduled service altogether, if the Civil Aeronautics Board, as expected, approves the lines' plans. Pan American has petitioned to drop from its schedule all flights out of Washington/Baltimore Friendship Airport, Philadelphia, New Orleans and nine foreign cities, including Stockholm and Oslo...
...darkly that some Scandinavian and Communist countries already employ such techniques, Western coaches and trainers have been searching for years for a safe, drugless way of improving athletes' performances. Swedish researchers may now have developed a technique that can do just that. In a series of experiments at Stockholm's Institute of Gymnastics and Sports, Dr. Bjorn Ekblom gave physical education students transfusions of their own red blood cells, which carry oxygen to muscles and other tissues. The result was the kind of boost in endurance that could mean the difference between a gold medal and none...
Otherwise, The Laughing Policeman is no laughing matter. Adapted from one of the intricately plotted, well-characterized Martin Beck policiers by the Swedish team of Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall, it loses a great deal in the translation from Stockholm to San Francisco's Dirty Harry country. Gloomy authenticity, for one thing; pace and a genuine sense of puzzlement, for others...
...which feared that Palme's plans might include expropriation of industries. Some corporate leaders stopped investing in plants, while others threatened to leave the country if he were reelected. Business has felt almost totally excluded from the running of the country. "Palme prefers confrontation to consultation," complained one Stockholm banker, adding that the Prime Minister had destroyed the congenial spirit of cooperation that linked businessmen and the Social Democrats during the regime of Palme's easygoing predecessor, Tage Erlander. "There is a feeling of uncertainty and unease about Palme," says a leading industrialist. "Does he understand that, basically...
...week the assassins made their first known mistake: they killed the wrong man. For weeks the team had been tracking down the chief of European operations for Black September. They thought they would be led to him when they began following a Black September agent from southern Europe to Stockholm, then to Oslo and finally to a small Norwegian resort city, Lillehammer. There, in a public bath, the Septembrist approached another Arab, Ahmed Bouchiki, 30, who looked like the Black September chief. Realizing his mistake, the agent stammered an apology and left. Bouchiki sensed that he had been checked...