Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic senatorial nomination over State Comptroller Louis Goldstein, the choice of the Tawes organization, by a 123,000-vote margin. Democratic voters also renominated all five of their party's congressional incumbents-and all had voted for the civil rights bill. On the G.O.P. side, Senator J. Glenn Beall, who also supports the bill, easily won renomination over Challenger James Gleason, who doesn...
...November, Taft will face salty Democratic Senator Stephen M. Young, 75, who easily won renomination over an opponent who was officially absent from the race: Astronaut John Glenn, still ailing from a bathroom fall almost three months ago. Young got 515,362 votes to 201,175 from never-say-die Glenn admirers...
...Taft-Glenn contest would have been fascinating. But on the basis of his showing last week, young Bob could probably take on a couple of Steve Youngs with a John Glenn tossed in for good measure...
...Fracture. Glenn hit his head so hard that shock waves went rippling through his temporal bone. Since the inner and middle ears are contained in a cavity in this bone, they took the full force of the shock. The canals may have been bruised and become swollen. It is possible that the same thing happened to the utricle and saccule. There may have been some internal bleeding, though there is no direct evidence of it. It may be simply that the shock irritated the microscopic nerve endings that pick up signals from the nonhearing organs for transmission to the brain...
...platoon of medical experts who have examined Glenn are unanimous in holding that his loss of balance and equilibrium has nothing to do with his having been subjected to eight or nine times the force of gravity in his space flight. Most victims of injuries to the inner ear recover in three to six weeks after no more treatment than rest and good care. Glenn's recovery is taking longer than average...