Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Judge Charles E. Clark, in a concurring opinion, had even harsher words for the prosecution. The case, he wrote, suggests that "the administration of the criminal law is in such dire straits that crash meth ods have become a necessity ...
"A prosecution framed on such a doubtful basis should never have been initiated or allowed to proceed so far. For in America we still respect the dignity of the individual, and even an unsavory character is not to be imprisoned except on definite proof of specific crime."
In a grim Moscow prison, two Americans while away the hours of their lonely confinement. They read Dickens, Thackeray and the Bible; they write letters to their wives. It has been nearly five months since Air Force Lieutenants F. B. Olmstead and John McKone and four companions were shot down...
In an 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...
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...