Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject of this callous horse trading, it strikes me that we got the worst of the deal. What Yankee would take a permanently unemployed pilot for an intelligence agent who's willing and Abel...
...thought he would be in danger. If I detected anything wrong, I would take immediate action." Part of the reason for Glenn's coolness under pressure and disappointment comes from his days as a Marine Corps combat (in World War II and Korea) and test pilot, when he learned to live with danger...
...Powers case was a milestone in the cold war. Nikita Khrushchev seized upon the downing of the U-2 pilot to torpedo...
...were once regarded as distant or complex subjects, and here a weekly magazine has an advantage over a daily newspaper with its hasty deadlines or a television camera that can only see what is in front of it. On such spot news events as the release of U-2 Pilot Powers, we try to add details beyond the twice-told, twice-seen...
...detached themselves from the opposing groups and walked across the white stripe, in the center of the bridge, that marks the boundary between West and East. Thus. last week, was effected the exchange of a pair of convicted cold war spies: American Francis Gary Powers, 32, the U-2 pilot who crashed in Russia in 1960 and was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, and Russia's Colonel Rudolf Abel. 59, who had served almost five years of a 30-year sentence for his espionage activities in New York...