Word: sweden
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Worlds. Profiting by this change, foreign manufacturers have poured into the U.S. market. West Germany led with the Volkswagen (1958 sales: 102,035), France sent the Renault (47,567), Italy the Fiat (23,000), Britain the Hillman (18,663). Japan has entered the U.S. market with its Toyopet, Sweden with its Volvo. Italy has just brought out a sleek new Fiat, and the Dutch announced only last week that they will soon bring their brand-new Daf into the U.S. market. Even the babies of the import family, e.g., West Germany's tiny Isetta and Goggomobile, found a market...
...apparently, were the European players. In one of the early games, Canada rattled a good Russian team with fierce body checks, breezed to a 3-1 victory. Playing in the same style, the U.S. flattened Sweden, 7-1. The victories were so convincing that the Europeans laid on the rough stuff themselves. Both the Czechs and the Swedes whacked their opponents to the ice in the best Canadian style. Even the Soviets, bruised by the MacFarlands, brawled in most uncomradely fashion with the Czechs before winning 4-3 in a game dotted with 15 penalties. But the Europeans will have...
Conditioning. Kiphuth's secret is to train his swimmers on dry land. In his early years as coach, he traveled to Sweden and Japan to study bodybuilding methods, incorporated what he observed and what he devised himself into a rigorous physical education program that all Yale swimmers must undergo before they take to the water for serious workouts. Under Kiphuth's direction, they work for weeks on weights and pulleys in Yale's immense Payne Whitney Gymnasium ("the Temple of Sweat...
...veteran sailor, Parker first gained national recognition by winning the midget Turnabout Tournament in 1952 and taking the junior title the following year. He further distinguished himself three years ago by being chosen one of five young sailors to represent the United States in a yachting exchange with Sweden...
...began as a street paver in his native Goteborg. At 26 he swoops along the same streets in a white Thunderbird, bosses $250,000 worth of equipment in the earth-moving business that he runs on the side. The son of a manual laborer, Ingo became the pride of Sweden with a simple public weapon: a devastating right...