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Red Grandy ©Stars and StripesParis, May, 1960: President Dwight D. Eisenhower holds court in his limousine as he travels through Paris before a scheduled summit meeting with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. The summit collapsed before it even got started, though, as Khrushchev demanded an apology from Eisenhower for the incident in which Francis Gary Powers and his American U-2 spy plane were shot down in the Soviet Union.

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