James B. Donovan closely followed the spy trial of Francis Gary Powers, an American U-2 pilot shot down over the Soviet Union in May 1960, and was interviewed by America.
L. C. McHugh, S.J.
L. C. McHugh, S.J., taught ethics at Georgetown University before becoming an associate editor at America and writing a regular column on science.
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A Jesuit’s controversial case for building a bomb shelter
Does Catholic social teaching permit you to mount a machine gun at the door of your family’s fallout shelter? In 1961, this was not an idle question.