Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admit that in foreign policy no rule is rigid, no solution is easy, no plan is foolproof, and no worthwhile policy is entirely devoid of risk. With the last point especially in mind, President Kennedy last week sent Nikita Khrushchev a straight-from-the-shoulder message through Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson Jr. The U.S.. said the President, views Laos as a test case of Soviet intentions (see FOREIGN NEWS), is willing to work toward a genuine settlement, or just as willing to throw its power into Southeast Asia to safeguard its vital interests...
...Paul C. Martin, associate professor of Physics, Dr. Francis M. Pipkin, associate professor of Physics, and Dr. John G. Thompson, instructor in Mathematics were among 70 college professors throughout the country to be given the two year grants...
Warren T. Thompson, who is running the Dining Hall for Stouffer's, said that he hoped to increase the services offered by the hall. Besides a further improvement in the food, he said he "dreamed" about adding a third serving line and a bakery shop...
...loudly proclaimed Soviet intentions to get Hammarskjold and the United Nations out of the Congo. There was no crowing over the victory. (Both the President and Secretary of State Dean Rusk canceled their press conferences.) Instead. Kennedy called in Secretary Rusk and the U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, Llewellyn Thompson. He publicly sent Thompson on his way back to Moscow bearing a letter to Khrushchev stating that Khrushchev could talk to Thompson as frankly as he might to Kennedy himself. There was no talk of summitry-just the fact that Thompson was there, wearing the presidential colors, if Khrushchev wanted...
Well before Thompson landed in Moscow, Khrushchev roared new support for his Communist-backed rebel leader in the Congo and ruled out any compromise. U.S. intelligence duly noted that new Soviet advisers were trickling into the pro-Communist capital of Stanleyville. Soviet Ilyushins renewed their milk-run nights to help the Communist-led rebels in Laos. Moscow's Pravda suddenly revved up the ominous old demands that Western troops get out of Berlin on Soviet terms...