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DIED. Richard Llewellyn, 76, British author whose bestselling lyrical novel about a heroic family of Welsh coal miners, How Green Was My Valley (1939), was made into an Oscar-winning film by Director John Ford; after a heart attack; in Dublin. His 27 other works include the popular 1943 novel None But the Lonely Heart...
...Swid head General Felt Industries, a New Jersey maker of carpet backing, and Knoll International, a manufacturer of office furniture. The two, both art collectors, acquired 29.9% of Sotheby's stock and announced that they wanted to buy the rest. Sotheby's was apoplectic. Chief Executive Graham Llewellyn threatened to "blow my brains out" if the bid succeeded, and Sotheby's staff of experts in London warned they would quit en masse...
...aboard the carrier Invincible, he plans a well-deserved rest. Ah, but not alone. Andrew, 22, and a winsome lass named Koo Stark, 25, head off for the Caribbean island of Mustique and the house once used as a trysting hideaway by Princess Margaret and her old flame Roddy Llewellyn. Hoping to get away unnoticed, the couple travel under the names Mr. and Mrs. A. Cambridge. But the press tumbles, and it turns out that the young lady, who is said to have dined with the prince and his mother Queen Elizabeth II, is an American-born, onetime soft-porn...
...Though the couple's early years are, in Dempster's terse account, full of "sex, sex, sex," the earl is all too soon observed spending more time in boudoirs than in darkrooms. When the lonely princess and mother of two takes up with an eligible aristocrat, Roddy Llewellyn, the earl appears on television. There, playing the crocodile cuckold, he tearfully begs indulgence for Princess Margaret and the children. "Lord Snowdon," Margaret concludes, "was devilish cunning...
...also gathering momentum. On the day after Thanksgiving a DC-8 cargo plane carrying $1.5 million worth of canned meat, baby formula, antibiotics and other supplies landed at Phnom-Penh's Pochentong Airport. It had been chartered by Operation California, an organization headed by two former antiwar activists, Llewellyn Werner, 30, and Richard Walden, 33. Aboard the flight was TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott. His report on a 48-hour visit to this strife-torn land...