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...evening last week, the President was indeed just a spectator-at his first baseball game since the season's opener. With him were two of his four grandchildren: David, 12, and Barbara Anne, 11. Despite the lopsided score (Boston 11, Washington 3), the President stuck it out to the end of the ninth. "My grandchildren wouldn't let me leave," he explained...
...1930s. All morning long in the cold Moscow rain, the black ZIM limousines rolled up to the court to disgorge Soviet Russia's Reddest-blooded aristocrats, including Khrushchev's daughter Elena. Out of the unaccustomed luxury of one of the ZIMs stepped Powers' wife, Barbara, 25. poised and cool in black, flanked by her mother and two lawyers. From another emerged her father-in-law. Oliver Powers, a 55-year-old cobbler whose last trip out of his hill country had been a visit to Atlanta and Washington in 1935. Hopelessly, Powers tried to comfort his wife...
Only then did Francis Powers get to meet his family. They sat about a small room behind the court for an hour, and though the Russians had laid out tea and caviar sandwiches, nobody had much appetite. Powers cried as he kissed Barbara. They talked glumly about mundane things: how to ship the furniture from Turkey to the U.S., whether to sell their car. For the next three years, Oliver Powers explained afterward, his son "will be working in a factory and confined to prison. After that he will serve seven years in a work camp studying the Communist system...
...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...
...Powers' court-assigned Russian counsel, without much hope that he would heed them. They argued that Powers was not really a spy: he had not been caught in espionage on Russian soil, but had merely been flying in the open skies at the command of his Government. Echoed Barbara Powers: "He should have been called a scout for our Government." It was a verbal distinction not likely to go far in a Russian court...