Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wearing brown and white patterned pajamas, Astronaut John Glenn Jr., 42, smiled wanly as orderlies wheeled his bed past the television cameras set up in the hospital lounge at Texas' Lackland Air Force Base. Quipped Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, "Some reentry...
...Glenn deeply felt the irony of it all. "We've been through 150 missions in two wars, having planes shot up from under us," he told newsmen. "We've been through test flying and the flight into orbit. And we've never been scratched in these other activities...
Last week the astrowives were orbiting Ohio with a curiously nonpolitical pitch. They reason that they cannot speak for Glenn's politics, and that he himself is prohibited from declaring his ideas because he is still a Marine. The best the girls can do is to promote a sort of "John Glenn, American Boy" image and explain why, as they put it, "a good Christian man like John Glenn would do a grubby thing like entering politics." At a rally in Marysville, Rene Carpenter ticked off a long list of Glenn's virtues, cried, "Why must politics...
...Hide-and-Seelc." Among those who would like very much to know more about Glenn is doughty Steve Young. Cruising into Akron last week in a sheriff's car covered with campaign signs, Liberal Democrat Young blustered in exasperation: "How do you campaign against a national hero who is at this moment flat on his back in a military hospital? I'm in a hide-and-seek campaign and I know it. I'm not even sure what I'm campaigning against...
Young's bewilderment was understandable. He would much prefer to forgo the dubious honor of campaigning against two attractive women. But there is only a slim chance that Young will be able to take on the candidate himself. Glenn probably will not get out of the hospital by April 1. The earliest that he can resign from the Marines after that is May 1. That would give him only a few days in which to campaign before the May 5 election...