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Fainsod is one of many rumored names in the Administration's very extensive search to find a replacement for Llewellyn E. Thompson, Jr., the present Ambassador. Thompson is leaving the post this summer, after spending five years in Russia...
Present at the Moscow Conservatory for the opening concert of Janis' second Russian tour were both judges and contestants from the Tchaikovsky Competition, plus Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson. For the occasion, Janis attempted a staggering tour de force: three major concertos in a single concert. While rehearsing the Rachmaninoff First and the Schumann and Prokofiev Thirds with Conductor Kiril Kondrashin and the Moscow Philharmonic, Janis felt "like a race horse trying for the Triple Crown." Conductor Kondrashin was confident: "I have now heard a pianist who can play three utterly different concertos with a perfect sense of style...
Muttering in Bonn. Behind the dizzying series of different proposals, some observers-especially in West Germany-detected a growing disarray in the West's alliance. In Bonn there was muttering about a tack of U.S. leadership, complaints that the wearily continuing talks between U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson and Russia's Andrei Gromyko in Moscow were doing a lot of harm; to a political meeting, Adenauer cracked that Thompson should not make a career of negotiating with the Russians. The Belgians were still grumbling about the lack of their allies' support in the Congo. Portugal made ugly noises...
Khrushchev's Turn. Had anything really changed? Berlin was still there; in the third of a series of meetings in Moscow to probe Soviet intentions about Berlin. U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson found Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko as unbending as ever. Laos and South Viet Nam were still very much there. In Geneva, mired down by Russian refusal to merge test-ban talks with general disarmament discussions-a reversal of Moscow's previous position-the nuclear test-ban talks were broken off last week after three long and frustrating years. The Russians tested another nuclear device (underground), while...
...Soviet-American understanding and cooperation. Khrushchev dispatched a warm message to Roosevelt's widow, praising F.D.R. for "his efforts on behalf of Soviet-American friendship." A Russian delegation appeared at Hyde Park to lay a wreath on F.D.R.'s grave, and Nina Khrushchev joined U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson and 250 Russians at a Moscow memorial ceremony dominated by a portrait of the late President...