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JOHN GLENN, the former astronaut who received the highest margin that Ohio voters have given a Senate candidate in the past 40 years. Glenn has been running for the Senate for ten years. In 1964 he challenged aging Democratic Senator Steven Young, but withdrew from the race after he slipped on a bathroom rug and began to suffer dizzy spells. In 1970 he tried again, but he was still running as a space hero; he lost in the primary to Howard Metzenbaum who was defeated by Republican Robert Taft Jr. Then Glenn sensibly undertook the business of being a politician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SENATE: Impressive Freshman Class | 11/18/1974 | See Source »

...William A. Anders, 41, a former astronaut, who will take over what remains of the AEC (basically its safety and regulatory operations). He will succeed Dixy Lee Ray, 60, who has been the highest-ranking woman in the Administration. Ray will become Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Matters-an office that was created in 1973 but never filled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENERGY: The Gentlemanly Sacking of Sawhill | 11/11/1974 | See Source »

Your review of Carrying the Fire by Mike Collins refers to his vision of a spacecraft with a crew of women with bobbing breasts. I have beaten Astronaut-Author Collins to the NASA SUTRA. The opening of chapter 11 of my Rendezvous with Rama reads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Sep. 23, 1974 | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...superswift Secretary of State has done it again [June 10]. The only possible accomplishment left for Henry Hercules is for him to become an astronaut, and then maybe he could be the first space-shuttle diplomat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 24, 1974 | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

John Glenn, Sc.D., astronaut. He helped push back the dragons from uncharted regions of space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Round 1 | 6/3/1974 | See Source »

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