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...self-reliance by saying: "I am not one to run to Washington with my hand out." The only one of the five mayors who opposes a Federal Urban Affairs Department, he welcomes the Government's presence in a limited sphere: NASA's decision to move its astronaut program to Houston, which inspired the Chamber of Commerce to subtitle the city "Space Center, U.S.A...
...Voice reports the bad news along with the good, does its best to show how the U.S. is moving to improve itself. "Prejudice exists in the U.S.," one broadcast said candidly, then went on to outline the nation's progress in winning civil rights for Negroes. When Astronaut John Glenn went aloft last month, his entire flight was broadcast live in English on the VOA network by announcers who were fully prepared to keep right on reporting the news if disaster struck...
...progress on TV almost as eagerly as they had followed his flight through space. The U.S. would have showered its gratitude on any man who put the U.S. back in the space race; the surprise was that it found Glenn the man fully the equal of Glenn the astronaut...
...Concord, Ohio, is a long way, but finally, John Glenn came home. And all along the way-in New Jersey at Newark Airport; in Zanesville, Ohio, where 4,000 turned out along the newly renamed John Glenn Highway; and at last in his home town, New Concord-the smiling astronaut was acclaimed by roaring crowds, warm praise, blaring bands, flapping bunting, and all the affection the entire nation once in a blue moon showers on a new Public Hero...
...ideal flying weather. The morning was dazzlingly clear, the ceiling and visibility unlimited, and a brisk, 20-mile-an-hour wind blew from the northwest. As New York waited to welcome Astronaut John Glenn, American Airlines' Flight One-nonstop to Los Angeles-screamed down the runway of International Airport at Idlewild, consuming a normal 5,000 feet of concrete before it left the ground in a perfect takeoff. Two minutes later, the flight of American One was over-and so were the lives of its 95 passengers and crew members. It was the worst tragedy involving a single plane...