Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...night of Dec. 13, FBI men entered a flophouse in Bridgewater, Pa., and arrested a chunky character named Ralph Charlton Hobbs. The G-men charged that he was one of a gang that last July stole ten paintings from the home of Millionaire Collector G. David Thompson in the Pittsburgh suburb of Whitehall. Hobbs was picked up after he opened direct negotiations with Thompson on Thompson's no-questions-asked offer of $100,000 for the return of the paintings. In fact, to show his good faith, Hobbs had returned one Picasso; the G-men. after trailing Hobbs...
...dramatic recovery should have been a cause for celebration in the fortresslike Thompson house. The paintings included works by Matisse, Leger and Miro, and their market value was estimated at around $500,000. But as of last week, Thompson still did not have his paintings. Instead, they were in a Pittsburgh bank vault in the name of Philadelphia's Insurance Co. of North America...
About a month after Hobbs first made contact with Thompson, the insurance company paid off the collector $189,000 for his losses. The FBI therefore turned over to the company the nine paintings that it recovered. Thompson can have them back by returning the $189,000 to the insurance company. But the paint-napers damaged their loot, and Thompson says the insurance company owes him $70,000 to cover the restoration. The company argues that $7,750 would be ample. At that, Thompson was better off than the lenders to last July's Cézanne show...