Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Question of Timing. The value of U-2 surveillance over Russia had been established by results (see Defense), but the question of whether to overfly Soviet territory just before the summit should have been weighed and debated at highest levels. It was not. Pilot Francis Gary Powers was brought down, and Khrushchev had a case. Air Force Chief of Staff General Thomas D. White believes the gamble was unnecessary. Had he been responsible for the U-2 flights, said White last week, the flights would have been called off well before the summit...
Would U.S. defenders now fire upon any Soviet reconnaissance planes if they were caught over U.S. territory? Yes, unless the pilot agreed to land and surrender himself and his craft...
...others to fly from their bases to our territory, we shall hit at those bases." To drive his point home, Khrushchev summoned to his side Pakistani Ambassador to Moscow Salman Ali and warned him that Soviet defense forces "have drawn a ring around Peshawar "-where the U2's pilot Francis Powers allegedly began his flight-and were prepared, if necessary, to take "retaliatory measures" against the Pakistani base. When Ambassador Oscar Gundersen of Norway, where Powers had planned to end his flight, asked for a definition of "retaliatory measures," Khrushchev replied: "If these provocations continue, we will have...
...Khan, spiritual leader of 20 million Moslems of the Ismaili sect, forced him to give up two hazardous pastimes: steeplechase riding and auto racing. But Aly continued his pursuit of speed and danger: three skiing accidents nearly cost him a leg; when he was only 21, and without a pilot's license, he took his turn at the controls of a light plane in an unprecedented 10,000-mile flight from Bombay to Singapore and back. Aly Khan slew quantities of lions, tigers and water buffalo, but always on foot and never from the safety of a tree platform...
...only plane that came was a twin-engine Piper Apache piloted by a U.S. adventurer whom U.S. authorities had been trying to get the goods on since last year. The pilot was Matthew Edward Duke, 45, ex-Navy flyer and ex-husband of Melody Thomson, 35, blonde heiress to a $3,000,000 tobacco fortune. In 1947, Duke hit the skids, got picked up on bad-check charges, then turned to the dangerous game of flying anti-Castro Cubans to U.S. exile...