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...deepest emotions in space seem to have involved man's home planet. Says Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon and now a professor of engineering at the University of Cincinnati: "I remember on the trip home on Apollo 11 it suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." To Apollo 8's Bill Anders, seeing the earth from out there evoked...
Died. Neil H. McElroy, 68, Defense Secretary during the second Eisenhower Administration; of cancer; in Cincinnati. McElroy was president of Procter & Gamble when Eisenhower chose him for the Pentagon in 1957. During his tenure the U.S. accelerated its space and missile programs. It was McElroy who first predicted a "missile gap." Ironically, the Democrats seized the issue in the 1960 election, but after taking office had to admit that the gap was nonexistent...
Toward the end, even McGovern seemed to know where matters stood. The smile could still be summoned; the handshake could be made to seem firm and confident. But his face was haggard and furrowed, his voice hoarse. He threatened to punch a Cincinnati heckler in the nose, whispered to an especially annoying Nixonite in Battle Creek, Mich., "Kiss my ass." Huffed the astonished youth: "He said a profanity...
...second time in three years, Cincinnati Reds catcher Johnny Bench was named Most Valuable Player of the National League by the Baseball Writers Association, Bench battle 270 and led the league in home runs with 40, and runs batted in with 125 as the helped guide the Reds to the NL pennant last season. The hard-hitting catcher polled 263 points, 52 more than runner-up Billy Williams of Chicago...
Though slowed in recent years by a heart condition, arthritis and a case of diabetes that left him blind in one eye, Robinson was never without a cause. When the World Series opened in Cincinnati this month, he was presented with a plaque commemorating the 25th anniversary of his arrival in the big leagues. "I am extremely proud and pleased," he said, "but I will be more pleased the day I can look over at third base and see a black man as manager." Among the hundreds of eulogies for Robbie last week, the simplest and perhaps most telling...