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...Asked McKone: "How do you want us to look-serious or smiling?'' Said Bennett: "Serious." What Wally Bennett got was his third TIME cover photograph (others: onetime Defense Secretary Charles Wilson, Secretary of State Dean Rusk); in addition, his pictures have aided artists in the painting of some 70 TIME covers...
...hands clutching the sides of his lectern, to face the press and live national TV in his first presidential news conference. His performance-cool, controlled, knowledgeable-was hard to fault, as was his matter-of-fact handling of the return of imprisoned U.S. Airmen Freeman Bruce Olmstead and John McKone (see The Cold...
FOREIGN POLICY. Kennedy and State Secretary Dean Rusk had hoped to gain time for working out foreign-policy plans by a return to the quiet techniques of traditional diplomacy at the ambassadorial level. But the release of U.S. Airmen Bruce Olmstead and John McKone upset the Kennedy Administration's schedule, made an early Kennedy-Khrushchev summit meeting all but inevitable. Both Jack Kennedy and Dean Rusk remain wary of Soviet intentions, still believe that the best way to prepare for accord is by keeping open every possible line of communication with Moscow. So long as his policy does...
That story broke the next day when President Kennedy, at his first news conference, made a dramatic announcement: "Captains Freeman B. Olmstead and John R. McKone, members of the crew of the U.S.A.F. RB-47 aircraft who have been detained by Soviet authorities since July 1, 1960, have been released by the Soviet government and are now en route...
...human terms, the release of Bruce Olmstead, 25, and John McKone, 28, was a heart-touching event. In diplomatic terms it was a blatant Khrushchev move in the continuing cold war, a Soviet gesture toward the new U.S. Administration that cost Russia nothing. In political terms it was a first test of the Kennedy Administration's ability to stay cool while the heat is on-and, from the moment that Ambassador Thompson entered Khrushchev's office, the Administration passed its test handsomely...