Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glenn Cunningham (R-Neb.), originator of the House bill, declares that his measure is really an innocent plan to increase revenue, since it would shift Communist mail from first and second class to revenue-producing fourth class rates. He denies that he is attempting to stop people from reading Communist opinion...
Appearing in a CBS television interview, Schirra had a few words about the postorbital activities of Astronaut John Glenn, who has recently been making appearances ranging from the Seattle World's Fair to Everett Dirksen's frivolous Anti-Superstition Society, while sandwiching in some water-skiing with Jacqueline Kennedy and attendance at a Bobby Kennedy pool party...
Officials were just about ready to call it quits for the year when Glenn Leasher, a 26-year-old dragster from Burlingame, Calif., showed up with an improbable creation called Infinity. Leasher and three partners pooled $12,000 to buy a surplus General Electric J47 jet engine complete with afterburner, the same power plant used in the F-86 Sabre jet of Korean war fame. The young dragster encased his engine in a 400-lb. aluminum body mounted on four wheels, added a pair of eight-foot parachutes for more braking power, and announced himself ready to beat the record...
...Glenn Leasher and his Infinity were scattered over a mile of salt. Only the monstrous engine was found in one piece...
...than 5,000 members and local chapters known as "reels") and correspond with each other by tape. Most of them are strenuous collectors of gadgets-head demagnetizers, bulk erasers, splicers-and tend to value a performance in direct ratio to how rare it is. A currently prized item: Pianist Glenn Gould playing Brahms's D Minor Concerto with the New York Philharmonic this spring-and Conductor Leonard Bernstein's speech disclaiming any responsibility for the performance...