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This story may have placated allies in case of U-2 trouble, but it was bound to fall apart if both plane and pilot were captured. Conventional cloak-and-dagger types argued that the U.S. should have kept a discreet silence in the face of all talk about the U2. They wondered, too, why the U.S., if it really wanted to ensure against detection, could not have subcontracted the job to a foreign pilot without a country, perhaps a refugee from a Communist satellite...
...machine. This country was caught with jam on its hands." Asked the Chicago Sun-Times: "Was the information to be obtained from the flight worth the possible political loss suffered by the capture and exploitation by the Reds? It is hard to put the wings of peace on the cloak...
...Cloak & Dagger. But Pilot Powers had bad luck: he got caught, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev says that he talked. Thus Khrushchev had the chance to tell the world about the U2's mission last week-with all the embellishment and distortion that best suited his case...
...with the promise of the season. The roosters greeted the dawn with an ovation, the newborn calves staggered after their mothers into greening pastures. The clear, swift-flowing Pedernales River sparkled under a benign sun, jack rabbits scampered across the country roads, and the bluebonnets spread their rich, bright cloak over the low hills. By midmorning at the L.B.J. Ranch, the winter-paled body of a weary man was slung in a canvas hammock, as the soothing strains of a Strauss waltz were wafted from a hi-fi speaker in a nearby live oak tree. Overhead...
...industry. Dr. Console noted, wears a cloak of "self-proclaimed virtue" for its costly research activities, stressing "that there are many failures for each successful drug." But, he charged, "the problem is that they market so many of their failures." Under present law, a new drug may be marketed, "if it cannot be shown that it probably will kill too many people." Reluctantly, Dr. Console concluded, he is convinced that sweeping reforms dictated by federal law are the only solution, because a company that tried to live up to higher ethical standards could not survive in today's competition...