Word: thompsons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.S.R. last week took the first big step toward disarmament since the breakdown of the London talks last fall. The U.S.S.R.'s Foreign Minister Gromyko handed to U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson an aide-mémoire accepting the weeks-old U.S. invitation to convene a meeting of scientists and technicians to discuss ways of inspecting any stoppage of nuclear tests. Place of meeting: Geneva. Time of meeting: July 1; composition of meeting: the U.S., Britain and France on one side, the U.S.S.R., Poland and Czechoslovakia on the other...
Sponsors of the congressional move to put an end to such silly distinctions are New York's Republican Senator Jacob K. Javits and New Jersey's Democratic Congressman Frank Thompson Jr. They introduced identical bills for major revision of the law to exempt from duty all works of art made of any material in any form. They would specifically exempt such hitherto excluded items as old primitive carvings, collages, lithographs, architects' models and modern tapestries...
Museum directors and gallery operators are expected to rally behind the Javits-Thompson effort, although they grant that many a sensible decision has been made under the present law. Case in point: when a batch of twelve "abstractions" by a London Zoo chimpanzee arrived in Baltimore, they were about to be passed as duty-free original works of art when customs inspectors identified the "artist." They assessed full duty, reasoning that when a chimp apes...
...distances, with Fitzgerald, Benjamin, a healthy Martin, Bill Thompson, Jim Schlaeppi, and a freshman named Fred Howard who could possibly become the best of the bunch will certainly be as strong as this year, and probably stronger...
...gusher of warm good will that has had more favorable impact on more Russians than any U.S. export-of word or deed since World War II. Ironically, the U.S. embassy was probably the last stronghold in Moscow to become aware of Van's coup; U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson and his wife had not even made plans to attend Van's finals audition until they were convinced by American contestants that to fail to appear would be a major blunder. And the committee of the Martha Baird Rockefeller Aid to Music Program, which paid the fare to Moscow...