Word: abel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing has characterized the naivete of the Kennedy Administration more than its brilliant trade of Rudolph Abel for Francis Gary Powers [Feb. 16]. If one compares the respective worths of the men involved, this action typifies the lack of responsibility of a person who has shown himself unfit to manage a minor-league athletic team...
...boundary between West and East. Thus. last week, was effected the exchange of a pair of convicted cold war spies: American Francis Gary Powers, 32, the U-2 pilot who crashed in Russia in 1960 and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, and Russia's Colonel Rudolf Abel. 59, who had served almost five years of a 30-year sentence for his espionage activities in New York...
Paris summit meeting and launch a series of crises that continued beyond the Administration of Dwight Eisenhower through the first year of John Kennedy's New Frontier. Only in recent weeks had there seemed to be signs of thaw-and the Powers-Abel exchange was certainly the most dramatic evidence to date of that thaw. There was a further meaning to the exchange. Although the U.S. under Eisenhower had admitted the purpose of Powers' flight over the Soviet Union, Russia had never so much as admitted that Abel existed. The trade of the two men last week...
Negative Answer. The negotiations that led to the Powers-Abel transfer began months ago-and the key figure was New York Lawyer James B. Donovan, a man with considerable experience in espionage cases. Donovan, 45, served in World War II as a Navy commander, became legal aide to Major General William ("Wild Bill") Donovan (no kin) in the Office of Strategic Services. After the war, he worked as a top assistant to Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson in prosecuting Nazi war criminals at Nürnberg. When Soviet Spymaster Abel was caught, Donovan was his court-appointed attorney. In arguing...
...Opus 1, no. 12; and Stradella's Sinfonia in D minor. Sunday, Verdi's String Quartet in e minor; Tchaikovskii's Fatum, Symphonic Poem, Opus 77; Strauss's Symphonia domestica, Opus 53; and The Genesis Suite (Prelude by Schonberg, Creation by Shilkret, Adam and Eve by Tansman, Cain and Abel by Milhaud, Noah's Ark by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Babel by Stravinsky, and The Covenant by Toch...