Word: olmstead
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Discussing the suburb. Creese said that American painters like Frederick Olmstead conceived of the suburbs as great works of art, a "return to nature in a new way." But the early suburbanites exhibited a "sense of immediacy in remaking nature...
Born. To Captain Freeman Bruce Olmstead, 25, copilot of the RB-47 bomber shot down by Soviet fighters over the Barents Sea on July 1, who spent nearly seven months in a Soviet prison before returning home last January; and Gail Olmstead, 26: their second child, second daughter; in Topeka, Kans...
...Olmstead: Same here...
Threats Rejected. For a while, the airmen were interrogated every day; then, after a few weeks, the interrogations slacked off. The Russians tried repeatedly to get Olmstead and McKone to sign "confessions" that they had been under orders to fly over Soviet territory, kept reminding them that they were being held on grave charges, punishable by death under Russian law, and hinted that their sentences might be lightened if they confessed. They refused (but they did sign some "legal documents," which they told the newsmen they were "not at liberty to discuss"). To keep his mind occupied, said Olmstead...
Tanned and rested after a vacation at Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico, Olmstead and McKone said that they were ready for "any job the Air Force gives...