Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Colts' offensive line is anchored by All-Pro Tackle George Kunz and Center Ken Mendenhall, and flanked by stylish Tight End Raymond Chester and ebullient Wide Receiver Glenn (Shake-'n-Bake) Doughty. Running Back Lydell Mitchell is the team's most effective runner; Roosevelt Leaks, at fullback, will attempt to fill the Colts' weakest offensive slot...
...said John Glenn [July 12] was "the first man to orbit the earth." Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth. Two others preceded him: Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov...
Senator John Glenn's fortunes apparently were the next to rise, especially after a survey by Carter Pollster Pat Caddell showed him and Maine's Muskie to be the most popular choices on one list of 14 possible candidates. Glenn flew to Plains, Ga., where he got along famously with Carter's family (he was eight-year-old Amy's favorite). But his relative inexperience (18 months in the Senate) and seeming malleability weighed against...
...created, I thought he handled it with dignity and without demeaning any of us." Church joked that he had had an omen: "Lightning struck my house two days ago in Bethesda, and you know they say that lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place." John Glenn confessed regret, but smiled: "We finally found out who's going to mow my lawn this weekend...
...politics that is new and different"). Walter Mondale -witty, cool, eager, even though he had found that campaigning for the presidency meant he had to spend too much time in Holiday Inns ("I have checked, and they have been redecorated. That is where I would like to be"). John Glenn -a hero still, warm, attractive, a bit edgy (Aren't military men too warlike? "I have had people shot-out from right beside me. I do not want to see that kind of thing ever visited on anyone again"). Each filled out two-page job-application forms ("Have...