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...time, he was collecting air samples and trying to get an electronic reading on the heavy Soviet defenses on the island. As a result of the Sakhalin overflight, the U.S. is considering such precautionary steps as increasing the U2's navigational gear and limiting flights to good weather to avoid chances of error. But there are no plans to ground the U-2 altogether-its probing flights are considered vital to U.S. security...
...Said he: "I had never seen anything like this before, and I am sure there was an explosion. I feel that the explosion was external to the aircraft and behind me, but I don't really know." After a desperate struggle. Powers managed to bail out of his U2. His treatment by his Russian captors, he said, had been "much better than I expected." He won applause from the spectators in the packed Senate caucus room when he said: "There was one thing that I always remembered while I was there, and that was that I am an American...
...cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. As chairman and moving spirit of giant Lockheed. Bostonian Gross equipped the armed forces with aircraft and weapons ranging from the P-38 and the Constellation to the Polaris missile, also furnished the U.S. with its most famed cold war intelligence tool: the U2...
...himself. One time he did not entirely escape the limelight was during the U-2 spy case last spring. Christian Herter was at a NATO foreign ministers' meeting in Istanbul, and Dillon was Acting Secretary of State when word reached Washington that the Russians had shot down a U2. Dillon, who had been fully briefed on the plane's real reconnaissance mission, nonetheless allowed State Department spokesmen to release a trumped-up cover story that the U-2 was merely on a weather-scouting flight. He did not tell his press officers the real truth until after Nikita...
...stubborn search for an explanation, the bureau keeps a dozen airplanes on duty. Last week its weather squadron was near Oklahoma City, right in Tornado Alley, and whenever thunder threatened, a highflying, camera-laden U2* soared far above the thunderheads. Supersonic jets, laden with instruments, darted through the fringe of the clouds. Even far from the core they bounced suddenly from 75 m.p.h. updrafts to downdrafts moving just as fast. At the center of a storm, winds of 350 m.p.h. were not uncommon...