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Midst laurels stood: ex-Astronaut John Glenn, 42, named winner of the $5,000 George Washington Award, highest honor of the Valley Forge Freedoms Foundation, "for inspiring all Americans to actively espouse resolute, responsible and reverent patriotism"; James Baldwin, Truman Capote, Ralph Ellison, Hans Hofmann, Louis Kahn, Bernard Malamud and John Updike among the 14 architects, painters and writers named to The National Institute of Arts and Letters; former New York Republican Governor Thomas Dewey, 61, in whose honor the 559-mile New York State Thruway will now be known as Dewey Thruway...
...Young Dems elected A.J. Heath '66, first vice-president; Paul DeRensis '66, second vice-president; Patricia D. Carden '66, secretary; and Lindsay E. Brew '66, treasurer. The YDCHR then voted to endorse the candidacy of Senator Stephen Young (D-Ohio) over astronaut John Glenn...
What happened after that in Columbus did not leave Ohio's Democratic Party very united. In a convention floor brawl, supporters of Astronaut John Glenn Jr., who had announced only three days before as a Democratic candidate for Young's seat, managed to withhold the endorsement from Young, or anyone else, and turn the state's May 5 Democratic senatorial primary into a bitter scramble...
...Women. Some voices were raised in doubt. The Toledo Blade, for one, editorialized that Glenn has about as much right to run for the Senate as Young does to become an astronaut. But, judged one Ohio Republican worriedly, "He's where the gold is. With television and women today and with a guy looking like a young Eisenhower, you've got to say he's strong...
...boosters that rocketeers are racing to build may soon toss a man all the way to the moon, or out into the vast reaches between the planets. But though their spaceships are well advanced, scientists are still struggling with the problem of what the far-traveling astronaut ought to wear when he takes the big trip. It is far from a question of style; it is a straightforward matter of survival...