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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...narrow green field and said it was there he had made his first solo flight, at 19, in a 60-h.p. trainer. He traced his finger a couple of miles down a country road. "That's where I grew up," he said, looking down at New Concord, a tiny community of 1,800 in which his father had worked as a plumber. He located the county fairground and the railroad tracks where he used to play. Glenn makes much of the self-reliance he developed in New Concord and later in the Marines. In Washington, he drives...
...difficult man to unpeel. After years of dealing with an accepting public, he drifts easily into platitudes. One keeps wondering what now drives him. Obviously the ambition is still great. For it, Glenn had swallowed his pride and invited even the hated Metzenbaum to his presidential announcement in New Concord in April...
...improve the climate for industrial growth, but the success or failure of individual firms will be determined in executive suites and on factory floors by managers and workers. To survive in the New Economy, companies will have to be flexible and efficient. Says William Thurston, president of GenRad, a Concord, Mass., electronics firm: "The first thing managers have to do is to take responsibility for their own destiny. They should stop complaining and get busy. They should keep up to date in technology and be responsive to the marketplace...
...storybook stuff: the smiling hero returns home to the high school named for him and announces that he will run for President. So it was last week at the John Glenn High School in New Concord (pop. 1,800), Ohio. "All Americans share the simple values we learned in this small town," Glenn said, evoking what will be the central theme of his middle-of-the-road campaign. "Those values are truly the heart of the American experiment, and they must be the soul of government as well...
...discovered psilocybin, a consciousness altering substance in the "magic mushroom," and were busy persuading graduates and un dergraduates to take it--in some in stances as part of a course for credit They arranged sessions--called "drug trips" by their opposition--for groups as diverse as prisoners in the Concord Reformatory and worshippers at an Easter Service to take psilocybin (and its more potent relative LSD). They reported nearly everyone had had ecstatic experiences which put them in touch with the marvelous powers of the mind, with God, and with a whole new way of living more joyfully and meaningfully...