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...Murray Llewellyn Barr, 54, at the University of Western Ontario, was busily studying the cells in the hypoglossus (tongue-controlling nerve) of the female cat when he realized that a little dark spot in each nucleus was never found in the cells of males. Then he learned that this was true of all mammals, including man. Now, a tiny pinch of skin or mucous membrane, examined under the microscope, will show the true, or nuclear, sex. Only such a test will indicate whether a child with a sex-chromosome abnormality should be raised as a boy or a girl...
...fact could hardly have been further from the hope. Mikoyan flew from New York to Washington, spent more than three hours with Kennedy, who was flanked by State Secretary Dean Rusk and former Ambassador to Moscow Llewellyn ("Tommy'') Thompson. Kennedy found himself enjoying the matching of wits with Mikoyan, and the dueling went straight on without the coffee break that has become customary during such afternoon sessions in the President's office. But when the two were done, they were still where they had started...
...Council executive committee into conference at Hyannisport. One by one and two by two they arrived-Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, Joint Chiefs Chairman Maxwell Taylor, Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric, Under Secretary of State George Ball, Bobby Kennedy, White House Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Special Counsel Ted Sorensen, Kremlinologist Llewellyn E. Thompson
...under the Damoclean sword of intercontinental ballistic missiles in the Russian homeland. There thus seemed little real need for such a massive effort in Cuba. Yet, as Kennedy pondered and as he talked long and earnestly with his top Kremlinologists-among them former U.S. Ambassadors to Moscow Llewellyn Thompson and Charles Bohlen-some of the answers began to emerge. More and more in Kennedy's mind, the Cuban crisis became linked with impending crisis in Berlin-and with an all-out Khrushchev effort to upset the entire power balance of the cold...
...former Ambassador to Russia Llewellyn E. Thompson, 58, stricken with a kidney-stone attack while golfing on the Air Force Academy course near Colorado Springs; and former President Herbert Hoover, 88, still recuperating in a Manhattan hospital after the removal two weeks ago of a tumor in his upper colon that doctors announced last week was cancerous, but of a type that seldom recurs or spreads...