Fifties (127 page)

Russian peasants survey the wreckage of Francis Gary Powers’ U-2 spy plane. More than the plane was shot down, for the U-2 incident damaged any hopes for a greater American-Soviet détente, and undermined Nikita Khrushchev’s ability to hold power.
UPI/BETTMANN

In 1959, Nikita Khrushchev barnstormed Hollywood during the first visit of a Soviet premier to the United States. Khrushchev’s prudish side showed when he met a number of Hollywood actresses—here Shirley MacLaine—in skimpy outfits.
BOB HENRIQUES, MAGNUM PHOTOS, INC.

During his 1959 march on Havana, Fidel Castro became leader of all forces opposed to the hated Batista regime and his movement’s strength greatly increased.
UPI/BETTMANN

AUTHOR INTERVIEWS FOR
THE FIFTIES

R
ALPH ABERNATHY, TOM ADAMS
, Naohiro Amaya, Michael Arlen, Harry Ashmore, Russell Baker, James Bassett, Laura Pincus Bernard, Hans Bethe, Stanley Booth, Herbert Brownell, Will Campbell, M.C. Chang, John Chancellor, David Cole, Bob Cousy, Geoff Cowan, Keith Crain, Robert Cumberford, Mike Dann, David E. Davis, Anthony De Lorenzo, Sophie Pincus Dutton, Jock Elliot, Dan Enright, Jerry Evans, Jules Feiffer, Estelle Ferkauf, Eugene Ferkauf, David Fine, Karl Fleming, Al Freedman, Don Frey, Betty Friedan, Betty Furness, Frank Gibney, Paul Gillian, Herman Goldstine, Dick Goodman, Dick Goodwin, Katharine Graham, Harold Green, Wayne Greenhaw, Sidney Gruson, Oscar Hechter, Thomas Hine, Mahlon Hoagland, Sandra Holland, Townsend Hoopes, Robert Ingram, Evelyn Pincus Isaacson, Joe Isaacson, Ray Jenkins, W. Thomas Johnson, Kensinger Jones, Chuck Jordan, Ward Just, Stanley Katz, Alfred Kazin, Murray Kempton, Bunkie Knudsen, Florence Knudsen, Julian Krainan, A.J. Langguth, William Levitt, Ira Lipman, Susan McBride, David McCall, Frank McCullough, Dick McDonald, Jay Milner, Frederic Morrow, Stan Mott, Leona Nevler, Stan Parker, Knox Phillips, Sam Phillips, John Alexis Pincus, Michael Pincus, Earl Pollock, Johnny Popham, Bill Porter, G.E. Powell, Waddy Pratt, Joel Raphaelson, Richard Rhodes, David Riesman, Matthew Ridgway, Kermit Roosevelt, Sr., Al Rothenberg, Harrison Salisbury, Gerald Schnitzer, Don Schwarz, Sheldon Segal, Joel Selvin, Robert
Serber, Don Silber, Claude Sitton, Reggie Smith, Dick Starmann, Herb Stempel, Tad Szulc, Henry Turley, Fred Turner, Sander Vanocur, Bill Walton, Tom Watson, Jr., Thomas Weinberg, Victor Weisskopf, Wallace Westfeldt, Marina von Neumann Whitman, Jerome Wiesner, Kemmons Wilson, Sloan Wilson, Bill Winter, Andy Young

Additional Author Interviews

Roger Ailes, Louis Cowan, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Albert Gore, Leonard Hall, Averell Harriman, Don Hewitt, Larry L. King, Murrey Marder, Earl Mazo, Mollie Parnis, Rosser Reeves, James Reston, Ted Rogers, Pierre Salinger, David Schoenbrun, Dan Schorr, C.L. Sulzberger, Bill Wilson

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