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There is little prospect of reaching any such agreement in the near future. Rusk pointed out that talks "are now concentrated on clearing the underbrush" and nothing more. In other areas, however, Washington sees more cause for hope. Veteran Sovietologist (and newly confirmed U.S. Ambassador to Moscow) Llewellyn Thompson told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week that Moscow now feels much freer to act than it did just a few months ago. Red China, he reasoned, is in such bad odor with the rest of the Communist world that the Russians no longer cringe whenever Peking accuses them...
Keep Them Talking. As ambassador to Moscow, succeeding Foy Kohler, Johnson picked Llewellyn E. Thompson, 62, one of the best working Sovietologists in Government. "Tommy" Thompson has spent nine years in the Soviet Union, five of them as ambassador-longer than any other American envoy -speaks fluent Russian, and has been a Kremlin watcher since 1933, when President Roosevelt first recognized the Bolshevist regime...
...Mexico City, where the press of tourism and business requires the U.S. to maintain its second biggest embassy (after London), the new building is a functional, if spiritless, product of Texas Architects R. Max Brooks and Llewellyn Pitts. Basically it is a chunky, $5,000,000 rectangular marble box rising six stories above some elegant but unrelated granite vaultwork. Since much of Mexico City sits on what was a lake, the building must be broad-footed to avoid sinking into muddy subsoil. A Mexican engineer, Leonardo Zeevaert, designed a displacement foundation that is in effect a watertight ship...
...masthead of Newsweek magazine went a new name last week. Llewellyn Link ("Pete") Callaway Jr.. 55. advertising director (since 1959) of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, took over as Newsweek publisher. Callaway's new post represents a fission of existing executive authority. He will shoulder some of the duties of Newsweek's Gibson McCabe. who. until Callaway arrived, served in a double capacity as both president and publisher...
Exquisite Chemistry. Geneticists who looked through microscopes at chromosomes taken from cell nuclei had noticed long ago that in some of their slides there was an unusually dark spot. Not until 1949 did Canada's Dr. Murray Llewellyn Barr realize that the spot appeared only in female cells. This discovery alone was invaluable for determining the true or nuclear sex in many cases involving various degrees of hermaphroditism.* But what was the spot...