Word: teborg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...track fans one night last week howled for Australian Runner Herb Elliott to break his own world's record for 1,500 meters. Elliott was obviously out to please, but he finished 1.4 sec. off the record of 3:36 that he set last month in Göteborg, Sweden. "The going was hard and good, and I have no complaints," he gasped later, "except that I may be a little tired...
...Running with the same awesome power that set a world's mile record of 3:54-5 last month, Aussie Herb Elliott sprinted the last 300 meters in 40.5 sec., was clocked at 3:36 for 1,500 meters in Göteborg, Sweden, to cut the world's record by a whopping 2.1 sec. Next day he ran the mile in 3:58, his ninth under four minutes...
...wartime bombing of Hamburg, when raging fires in the city sent superheated air surging into the shelters, suffocated and burned their inhabitants alive. In case of fire above ground, the Swedish ventilators can be shut off while built-in oxygen machines make the air livable. ¶ In Göteborg the subterranean refuge extends for seven stories underground; in Malmö the city shelter is used as a ballroom; of the four atom-bombproof Stockholm shelters, the one under Engelbrekt Church will serve as a columbarium for cremated parishioners...
...trouble trying to stow away aboard a Swedish ship, finally accepted a Danish crew boss's offer to smuggle them into Denmark and hand them over to the Danish underground. Half a dozen harrowing adventures later, they reached the British consulate in Göteborg, Sweden, to learn that their fellow escapee had arrived by way of Danzig a full week earlier...