Airman First Class Marvin L. Jones, 21, stationed at the Ramstein, U.S.A.F. base in West Germany, likes to think of himself as having a wild-blue-yonder sense of humor. When his girl back home in Colorado wrote she wasn't going to visit him this summer, he wrote and told her he was so desolate that he was going to defect. The next letter she would get would be from the Kremlin, he added with gleeful literary pique. Har-de-har-har.
So Jones took off on a 23-day sightseeing tour that included Moscow. When he hit the Big Onion, naturally, the airman dashed off...
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