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...hours before deadline. Two days before press time, TIME'S editors switched off a cover that had been painted and written, scheduled a new one that reports the week's biggest story-the unexpected release and return from Moscow of imprisoned RB-47 Flyers John McKone and Bruce Olmstead...
Reference the story on Captains Olmstead and McKone in TIME, Dec. 12: the Department of State has repeatedly and insistently demanded the release of the two officers and has raised the matter at the highest level in the Soviet government, as well as with ranking Soviet officials in Washington, Moscow and at the United Nations in New York...
...publicity has been given to some of the State Department's efforts does not mean that no action has been taken. The State Department's guiding principle has been and is to do everything it considers most likely to result in the release of Captains Olmstead and McKone. The success of this effort depends on doing certain things quietly...
...grim Moscow prison, two Americans while away the hours of their lonely confinement. They read Dickens, Thackeray and the Bible; they write letters to their wives. It has been nearly five months since Air Force Lieutenants F. B. Olmstead and John McKone and four companions were shot down in their RB-47 reconnaissance plane over the Barents Sea. The two young officers were captured, brought to Moscow on loudly trumpeted but plainly trumped-up charges of espionage. The body of one fellow airman was returned to the U.S.; the others are listed as missing...
...notes gave an inkling, especially as the Christmas season approached, of their solitary anguish. "I can't believe that nothing is happening," wrote Bruce Olmstead, "and I do my best to make it from one day to the next, hoping that some decision will present itself." Said John McKone: "This is an ordeal. I don't think that either one of us will ever be the same ... I have no idea what the future holds for us at this time...