Word: teborg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time it was the Communists who were on the wrong end of the protest vote. Communist Leader Carl-Henrik Hermansson roundly denounced the Soviet invasion and was denounced by Moscow radio in turn as "the chatterbox husband of a millionairess"-his wife is the daughter of a Göteborg clothing-store tycoon. Hermansson regularly ignores Moscow's line, and the party has become so bourgeois that he once campaigned on a platform of two houses for every family. Still, Sweden's voters were not reassured. While the Communists had won more than 6% of the popular vote...
TERTIUS CHANDLER Göteborg, Sweden...
Stern First. When the new, $36,000,000 Arendal yard of the Götaverken Ship Building Co. goes into production near Göteborg next spring, it will be the world's most fully automated shipyard, capable of building colossal, 140,000-ton ships on the industry's first real assembly line. It throws out the old method of building ships on stationary ways from the keel up. Instead, ships will emerge from a giant assembly shed stern first in 45-ft. sections; as they move down the ways, everything from deckplates to cabin carpets will...
Europe's Biggest. This week the Kockums yard in Malmö will deliver the largest ship ever built in Scandinavia, the tanker Esso Lancashire (81,150 deadweight tons). At the Eriksberg yard in Göteborg, workers are laying the keel for the largest ship ever built in Europe, a 92,750-ton Socony Mobil tanker...
Even so, when Henk entered the world championships in Göteborg, Sweden, last week, some 100 pessimistic Dutchmen flew over to watch him lose gracefully. Henk started fast by winning second place in the 500 meters, first in the 1,500 meters -the two short races on the program. But he finished twelfth in the unfamiliar 5,000 meters. To win the overall title from Russia's great Viktor Kosichkin, Henk knew he had to come within 20 sec. of his rival's time in the exhausting 10,000 meters...