Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Climax of Civilization. The company turned out to be congenial. Attorney General Bobby Kennedy took into tow a fellow named John Glenn. "Hey, John," yelled Bobby over the din to the astronaut, "come over here and meet the ambassador." After dinner, the U.S. Air Force's 30-piece "Strolling Strings" came into the hallway where guests were mingling. Linus and Ava Pauling promptly swirled into a Viennese waltz. Other couples joined in, and Pauling, flushed with success, ordered a tango. About that time Jack and Jackie entered and-since there's not supposed to be dancing...
After the easy, articulate warmth of its own astronaut. Colonel John Glenn, the U.S. was surprised last week by the somewhat uncommunicative attitude of Russian Cosmonaut Gherman Stepanovich Titov. Sent to the U.S. to share his hard-won knowledge of travel in space with Glenn and COSPAR (Committee on Space Research), Titov seemed under orders from home to do nothing of the sort. In press conferences and TV interviews, he was always guarded and reluctant in his replies, though often breezy enough when it came to enjoying the crowds...
...Washington, Titov and his buxom wife Tamara joined John and Mrs. Glenn for a frantic tour of the capital. They were chivied from conference to conference by mobs of reporters, photographers and keening teenagers. ("My God," cried one photographer, "it was Sinatra all over again!") The Glenns showed the visitors the standard sights (Smithsonian, Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, etc.) and took the Titovs to the White House for a brief, formal call on President Kennedy...
Always Perfect. Finally Titov had to face up to the official reason for his trip to Washington: his address before COSPAR. Listeners who hoped that they would hear a Glenn-type account of the Russian's 25 hours in orbit were disappointed. Titov's formal, apparently ghostwritten speech described the Vostok II's equipment only in the most general terms. Even when figures were given, they were carefully selected to tell little. Titov revealed, for instance, that his ship was launched by a multistage booster having six liquid-propellant rocket engines with 600,000 kilograms...
Laconic Statement. A special circuit carried the news to Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Glenn T. Seaborg in Washington. The AEC relayed the word to President Kennedy, then cruising on his yacht, the Honey Fitz, on Florida's Lake Worth. The President's casual surroundings were deliberate-they were part of a major U.S. policy decision to underplay the resumption of atmospheric tests...