Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down-well out over international waters. But the Russians were unmoved. They held Olmstead and McKone incommunicado, let them see each other only twice, refused to permit U.S. embassy personnel to visit them. All that the Russians returned of the plane or its crew was the body of the pilot, Captain Willard G. Palm. Captain Oscar L. Goforth, Major Eugene E. Posa and Captain Dean B. Phillips, the three others presumably killed in the attack, were never found...
That's John. Unlike U-2 Pilot Powers, who began talking almost from the moment of his capture, Olmstead and McKone bore their imprisonment bravely. Once every two weeks-all they were allowed-the prisoners wrote home. From their letters, their anxious families could piece together the loneliness of men who dared not guess what their futures promised, what their country could or would do to save them. At her home in Topeka, Kans., near Forbes Air Force Base, John McKone's wife Connie read and reread every word she received. "The handwriting is John...
...Minutes. At 1:30 on Monday morning, armed men appeared in the officers' quarters and on the bridge. The third pilot dashed toward the captain's cabin, but was dropped with four bullets and died. In the wild shooting, an apprentice and a ship's doctor were wounded. Taking charge on the bridge, Henrique Galvão ordered the ship's engines stopped, then he picked up the intercom phone, got the captain and told him casually that he was taking over his ship. It was all over in ten minutes...
...ruthlessly hunted down and indifferently converted to dog meat makes a shattering comment on an aspect of modern life. But the rest of the picture-despite skillful work by Director John Huston-is rambling, banal, loaded with logy profundities ("I can't make a landing," sobs a drunken pilot, "and I can't get up to God, either"). Perhaps the most suitable comment on the whole business is made by one of Scenarist Miller's characters, who at the dullest point in the picture remarks quietly: "Help...
Close-Up! (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). "X-Pilot," the story of Test Pilot Scott Crossfield and the rocket-powered...