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...would be temptingly easy to dismiss Col. John H. Glenn, Jr., U.S.M.C.(ret.) and astronaut as little more than a huge boy scout made good. Tall, tanned, fit, graceful, handsome, just shy enough, pleasant, polite, friendly, modest, sincere--just think of any epithet related to "clean-cut," and it probably applies to the colonel. A country lad who went to Muskingham College, a United Presbyterian Church school in his home town of New Concord, Ohio, married the girl a quarter of a mile down the road, joined the Marine Corps in 1941 and stayed for 18 years, Glenn seems about...
After his 1963 orbital flight, he explained, he realized that continuing to work full-time for NASA would make him "the world's oldest used astronaut--not especially good career planning...
...space experience, "You just go up, fly around, do your job, and come down." It's like flying an airplane, but "you're much more dependent on your physical senses," he summarizes. The closest he ever came to rhapsodizing Friday was while showing a breathtaking color slide of an astronaut's-eye view of the earth. Said he, "It's nice to look at this thing in between your chores...
CLOAK OF MYSTERY (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Shortly after an astronaut temporarily loses contact with the earth, strange and lethal creatures are found creeping about...
...Lieut. Commander Joseph P. Kerwin, 33, a Navy flight surgeon and jet pilot, has hankered for astronaut's wings for two years, says it took him exactly 1½ seconds to make up his mind when he heard NASA was out shopping...