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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...
...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...