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...world track-and-field championships last August in Gothenburg, Sweden, Johnson did something they said couldn't be done. After running in three 400 preliminaries, he won--and nearly broke the world record in--the 400 on a Wednesday. Then he ran three 200 prelims before winning--and nearly breaking the world record in--the 200 on Friday. He topped it all off by anchoring the victorious U.S. 4 x 400-m relay team on Sunday. Asked whether the Olympic schedule would be changed to accommodate Johnson's double dare, Primo Nebiolo, the president of the International Amateur Athletics Federation...
...that would have taken twice as long had it not been done by machine. Timex wristwatches, Ping golf clubs, Reebok sneakers and Volvo station wagons are all created on graphics workstations. Volvo even uses a satellite hookup to connect its design computers in California with its manufacturing computers in Gothenburg, Sweden. If a new model does not leave sufficient headroom to accommodate the average American driver, the computer in Gothenburg can spot the oversight before the car gets built...
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: THREE SYMPHONIES, CAPRICCIO ESPAGNOL, RUSSIAN EASTER FESTIVAL OVERTURE (DG). There is much more to Rimsky than Scheherazade, as Neemi Jarvi and the Gothenburg Symphony prove...
...their allies the Communists won 21, two more than before. At the same time, the Environmental Green Party captured an impressive 20 seats to become the first new party to break into Sweden's parliament since 1917. The ruling party clearly benefited from Sweden's current economic prosperity. Said Gothenburg University professor Soren Holmberg, a leading election analyst: "Swedes voted with their wallets this year...
...more than 1 million copies, fielded one hit single and two excellent Bowie videos that are holding down heavy air space on MTV. The album and its gold-record title track are also buttressing Bowie's current tour, a blitzkrieg that has sold out stadiums all over Europe; in Gothenburg, Sweden, Edinburgh and Paris, he beat last year's Rolling Stones' attendance records. For a charity concert in London, scalpers got $150 a seat...