Word: astronaut
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Mondale's weakness plays directly into Glenn's strength: an appeal that cuts across class and interest-group lines, based on his days as an astronaut, which will be celebrated again in the upcoming movie of Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff. Crowds pack around to stare at the first American to orbit the earth, fondly remembering a time when the nation seemed more united and the future more full of hope. One telling incident: when New York Governor Mario Cuomo played host to a Democratic forum at which Glenn spoke, Cuomo's secretary begged...
...alone, Mondale leads Glenn, 29% to 25%, but Glenn has a nine-point advantage among independents, who in some states can vote in either party's primaries. Mondale's greatest strength is in the Northeast, where he tops Glenn by 35% to 24%; he trails the former astronaut in the Midwest and South. Mondale is the clear choice of blacks and other minorities, with 32% support, easily beating out Glenn with 12%, and even Jesse Jackson, who currently claims only 23% of that constituency...
Other unionized carriers looking for their own routes to survival are closely watching Continental's bankruptcy and reorganization. Former Astronaut Frank Borman, 55, chairman of Eastern Air Lines, which is $2 billion in debt and lost $94.4 million in the first half of this year alone, has already said he might follow Lorenzo. Two days after Continental's ploy, Borman told Eastern's 37,500 employees that if they do not accept pay cuts of at least 15%, the company will be forced to either shut down à la Braniff or go into bankruptcy à la Continental...
...milestone was womanhood's for evolving to that point, or NASA's for abandoning a benighted state of consciousness. The line between those two types of progress must have been in the back of somebody's mind, because the following week, when NASA sent up its first Black astronaut, things were a trifle more subdued on the publicity side. Certainly, no one would have cared to suggest that the milestone signaled the end of limitation anywhere but in the space agency...
With a cautious, almost shuffling gait, the astronaut began moving about in the harsh light of the lunar morning. "The surface is fine and powdery, it adheres in fine layers, like powdered charcoal, to the soles and sides of my foot," he said. "I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine, sandy particles." Minutes later, Armstrong was joined by Edwin Aldrin. Then, gaining confidence with every step, the two jumped and loped across the barren landscape for 2 hrs. 14 min., while the TV camera they had set up some 50 ft. from Eagle...