Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Holland's father Jerome "Bud" Holland starred for Cornell in 1937 and 1938. One of the first blacks to play in the Ivy League, Bud Holland was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1965 and is now the U.S. ambassador to Sweden...
...Niemans from abroad are: Graeme H. Beaton from Australia; Khen V. Chin from Malaysia; Tomas O. Dillen from Sweden; Dominique Ferry from France; Michael H.C. McDowell from Northern Ireland; Michael McIvor from Ontario; John S. Mojapelo from South Africa; Sabam P. Siagian of Indonesia; Donald J. Woods from South Africa; and Royston J.A. Wright from Sierra Leone...
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...
...year-old Ackermann was born in Sweden, where her father was a foreign service officer. Ackermann attended schools in Dublin, France, and Washington D.C. before graduating from Smith College in 1945 with a B.A. in Greek and Latin. During that year she married Paul Ackermann and spent the next 17 years teaching, proofreading, editing and writing while she raised two children...
...International Dunes Hotel. They kept to themselves, eating their meals-sometimes ordered from an expensive French restaurant-in their suite and paying their bills in cash. The source of the money was a mystery. The father once spoke vaguely to a hotel clerk of owning silver mines in Sweden. But a disciple had recently been convicted of wire fraud, and the FBI was investigating Longo on similar charges...