Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eyes, read from a prepared statement: "I appeal to Mr. Khrushchev as one father to another for the sake of my boy. I understand that he lost a son in the war against Nazi Germany, fighting alongside the U.S. for the same cause." A few hours later Pilot Powers' wife Barbara landed in Moscow, accompanied by her mother, a physician and two family lawyers. Said Barbara: "The first thing I want to do is see my husband, and then Mr. Khrushchev...
Beating the drums for the approaching showcase trial of U-2 Pilot Francis Powers (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Moscow's propagandists sent Russia into its worst case of spy fever since Stalin's time. Day after day the Soviet press hammered away at the insidiousness of foreign influences ("I began to have unhealthy thoughts as a result of my enthusiasm for jazz"), reported with horror fresh cases of foreign visitors "caught" spying "under cover of the mask of tourism." After years of pleas for greater cultural exchange with the West, the Kremlin now seemed alarmed over the impact that...
These dismal lyrics are modestly acknowledged by their author to be "the last great hope of the world." If they catch on, he argues, they will shame the Russians into releasing U-2 Pilot Powers; if they fail, the U.S. can expect total war. By last week, the twangy contribution to international amity had notched its sixth week on the pop charts, and this more limited achievement seemed to be enough to please the man responsible: 45-year-old Country-Western Singer Dave McEnery, known to his fans as Red River Dave...
...Carolina/ Where the Smokies dot the land/ God sent a new boy baby/ And he called him Billy Graham"). Fourteen years ago, McEnery also achieved some slight notoriety by handcuffing himself to a piano and writing 52 original songs in eight hours without getting up. When the plight of Pilot Powers swam into McEnery's vision, he waited, he says, to be sure that Powers was "a real American hero" and not "a turncoat or something like that," then quickly ground out the lyrics and set them to the music of There's a StarSpangled Banner Waving Somewhere...
...Utah. She calls it "a process of reading rapidly down the page, allowing the eyes to trigger the mind directly and eliminating the necessity of saying, hearing or thinking the sound of words." Mrs. Wood thinks most people are "sub-vocalizers" or inward lip-readers. Just as a pilot is aware of many things at once, her students learn to steep themselves in a book's total mood and meaning. "You see more than a single detail in a picture," she explains. "You see the whole thing...