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...ultimate skywatch pilot," says his boss. "He lends more credibility to skywatching than anyone you could imagine." Francis Gary Powers, who garnered embarrassing fame in 1960 by getting caught spying on Russia in a U-2 airplane, is still spying -this time on traffic conditions on Los Angeles' freeways. Filling in for a vacationing traffic reporter, Powers says that the biggest change he can spot from his single-engine Cessna is that in the early '60s "when I flew at high altitudes, I could see from the Gulf of California to the Monterey Peninsula on a clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 2, 1971 | 8/2/1971 | See Source »

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