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...Died. Llewellyn Thompson, 67, diplomat and Kremlinologist; of cancer; in Bethesda, Md. Thompson made deft use of two valuable assets: patience and a thorough knowledge of his opponent. The career Foreign Service officer successfully negotiated the Austrian State Treaty with the Russians, ending Austria's postwar occupation, and the Trieste settlement resolving the Italian-Yugoslav dispute over the Adriatic seaport. His two tours as Ambassador to Moscow (1957-62 and 1967-69) covered some explosive moments in U.S.-Soviet relations, including the U-2 incident and the 1961 Berlin crisis, but through it all Thompson maintained excellent rapport with...
...estimate, the real costs of producing each of the remaining planes in the order would be anywhere from $1 million to $3 million more than the contract price-a staggering total of $684 million to more than $2 billion. The reasons for the overrun, says Grumman President Llewellyn J. Evans, are the high rate of inflation since the original agreement was drawn up and a reduction in the company's other defense business, which has raised overhead costs for remaining projects. As it is, Evans figures that Grumman will make little or no profit on the first 38 planes...
...Calvary Cemetery where hundreds of them were buried in mass graves. In Farmington, there is a monument to 16 men killed in Consol No. 9 in 1954. Up the street races a boy whose father died in those same shafts two years ago. Out at the entrance to the Llewellyn Portal-the center of the explosions and fires on Nov. 20. 1968-a wooden frame holds a dozen bouquets put there on the second anniversary of the most recent Marion County mining disaster. The wreaths bear the phrases: "In loving memory," "Sadly missed...
...present cramped quarters, which housed the servants of a large villa before the U.S. took it over, to a half-block-long building on Norodom Avenue. The man in command, succeeding Charge d'Affaires Lloyd Rives, will be newly appointed Ambassador Emory ("Cobey") Swank, 48, who was Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson's second in command in Russia as deputy chief of mission and is now one of the State Department's ranking Soviet experts. He also served as Washington's No. 2 man in Laos from...
...Administration, later became John Foster Dulles' special assistant for atomic affairs. The group also includes Arms Control Deputy Director Philip J. Farley, 53, former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul H. Nitze, 62, and Physicist Harold Brown, 42, who was Johnson's Air Force Secretary. The political adviser is Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr., 65, twice ambassador to Moscow and now Washington's ablest interpreter of Russian moods and nuances...