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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Soviet defense frequencies. The chatter of frustrated Russians was familiar and reassuring to the U.S. monitors as the intruder was passed from one Russian military zone to another. U-2 penetrations were no secret to the Soviets; Powers and other pilots had made them often during the past four years. The Russians had fired rockets, but the rockets had fallen short at some 60,000 ft.; MIG fighter planes had flashed after them and had mushed helplessly at the same altitude, well below the U2's lofty sanctuary...
...space itself. Says International Lawyer and Political Scientist Hans Morgenthau of the University of Chicago: "There are no legal precedents for such flights." The U.S. now finds itself in a grey area between war and peace, in a time when old codes are frequently stretched or violated. In the past cold-war decade. Soviet or Red Chinese combat planes have attacked and gunned down half a dozen U.S. patrol planes, several of them well outside Communist borders. The cost: at least 28 U.S. lives. The penalty paid by the Soviets, despite U.S. protests to the World Court: none. In West...
...national parks-Wyoming's Jackson Hole, the Virgin Islands National Park, Maine's Acadia National Park; Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art; the site of the United Nations; the restored Reims Cathedral; and the rebuilt Stoa of Attalus in Athens. Colonial Williamsburg rose from the American past, and Rockefeller Center pointed to the American future (and changed the New York skyline). Schools, from Louvain to Tokyo and from Harvard to the University of Chicago (which his father founded in 1890), benefited by $81,708,000. Religious causes, representing every creed, received another $80 million. All told...
...Atlanta Federal Penitentiary for his spying. Where the varied dissatisfactions of the Chinese, East Germans and Poles kept the Soviet empire in ferment, the nations of the free world were still essentially united in purpose, were even, as in South Korea, sloughing off some of the weaknesses of the past...
...that at last the boss was beginning to see the light. At the crucial summit opening this week, observers noted that Khrushchev seemed to be paying "great attention" to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Defense Minister Marshal Rodion Malinovsky-both men he had often treated as flunkies in the past. Furthermore, he astonished veteran Kremlinologists with the reason he gave for insisting that he had to make his tirade public. "I can not do otherwise," said Khrushchev...