Word: rb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story were prepared just a few hours before deadline. Two days before press time, TIME'S editors switched off a cover that had been painted and written, scheduled a new one that reports the week's biggest story-the unexpected release and return from Moscow of imprisoned RB-47 Flyers John McKone and Bruce Olmstead...
...than two dozen cover stories, including TIME'S fast-closing cover on downed U-2 Pilot Francis Powers (TIME, May 16) and the one on Admiral Harry Felt (TIME, Jan. 6). Dick Seamon, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, has an intimate knowledge of the RB-47 flyers' procedures and perils: during World War II, after training in radar and electronics at Harvard and M.I.T., he piloted a photo-mapping PB4Y-1, dodged flak and enemy fighters from the New Hebrides to Guam...
...eloquent argument before the U.N. at the time, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge protested that the RB-47 was on a legal reconnaissance flight, well beyond the limits of Russian territorial waters, that the crewmen were in uniform, and that they had made no pretense at concealment. Lodge offered to argue the case, backed up by evidence, before any international tribunal; the Soviets coldly turned the offer down. And there the matter...
There was no hullabaloo demanding their release, no publicity such as attended the case and trial of Francis Gary Powers -a well-paid civilian who admittedly flew his U-2 over Russia on a photomapping expedition for the Central Intelligence Agency. The men of the RB-47 were uniformed members of the Air Force, on regular duty and a legal mission...
...wives and widows of the men of the RB-47 have abided by the department's request to keep quiet and wait. But waiting is difficult for young wives, and they can find small comfort in the driblets of letters that manage to seep through the Communist censorship. Among the personal messages the prisoners were permitted to write to their families, a few notes gave an inkling, especially as the Christmas season approached, of their solitary anguish. "I can't believe that nothing is happening," wrote Bruce Olmstead, "and I do my best to make it from...