Word: gail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Donald H. Menzel, director of the Observatory, headed the group, which included Gail Moreton, director of the Lockheed Solar Observatory in Burbank, Calif...
...Gail Olmstead, pregnant with her second child (the first: Karen, 2), spent the empty, endless weeks of waiting at her parents' home in Plainfield, N.J. It was hard to maintain her husband's faith that everything would work out, that they would be back together soon. The details of Bruce Olmstead's confinement were not encouraging: "I am kept alone in a cell but am not being abused." Prison, he wrote, "has pretty well shown me that I couldn't quite make it as a cloistered monk. I am given cigarettes, hon, and filters at that...
Enough Blame. For Gail Olmstead and Connie McKone, the toughest job of all was to follow Air Force advice to remain calm and quiet, not to make personal appeals to Khrushchev, not to complain to the press. It seemed to the two women that very little was being done for their husbands. Regularly, every two weeks, the U.S. State Department sent notes to the Soviet Foreign Office and asked that the two officers be released. Regularly, the notes drew evasive replies...
Wonderful Thing. By that time, Colonel Godfrey McHugh, White House Air Force aide, had telephoned to Connie McKone and Gail Olmstead to report that their husbands were free. Memories of the news-breaking conversations are blurred with emotion. "There was silence and heavy breathing over the phone," said McHugh. "It got me, too. In their voices you could tell how they felt." Later, after his press conference, President Kennedy, too, decided to call the wives. But their phones were already jammed. The operator announced that President John Kennedy was among those waiting to get through. Which call did Mrs. McKone...
...Broadway theater, sultry Singer Lena Home dropped in on opening night to catch her daughter, Gail Jones, 22, in a musical titled Valmouth and having to do with the antics of a mixed bag of aristocrats, plebeians and Far Eastern visitors at an English seaside resort. The critics thought the show "tired" and "a mess," but one allowed that Gail might ride more handsomely in another vehicle. Tersely observed the New York Times: "Gail may turn out to be a singer...