Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More informal aspects of the meeting found Rhodes referring to President Kennedy as "an individual who is physically attractive and who has done nothing to hurt the country." He drew laughter at Attorney General Robert Kennedy's expense with the comment, "Glenn was able to go around the world three times and make fewer mistakes than Bobble Kennedy did going around once...
From space to Perth to Manhattan to New Concord, Ohio, is a long way, but finally, John Glenn came home. And all along the way-in New Jersey at Newark Airport; in Zanesville, Ohio, where 4,000 turned out along the newly renamed John Glenn Highway; and at last in his home town, New Concord-the smiling astronaut was acclaimed by roaring crowds, warm praise, blaring bands, flapping bunting, and all the affection the entire nation once in a blue moon showers on a new Public Hero...
...heavily Republican New Concord, Ohio, Glenn's parents are solidly Democratic...
...ideal flying weather. The morning was dazzlingly clear, the ceiling and visibility unlimited, and a brisk, 20-mile-an-hour wind blew from the northwest. As New York waited to welcome Astronaut John Glenn, American Airlines' Flight One-nonstop to Los Angeles-screamed down the runway of International Airport at Idlewild, consuming a normal 5,000 feet of concrete before it left the ground in a perfect takeoff. Two minutes later, the flight of American One was over-and so were the lives of its 95 passengers and crew members. It was the worst tragedy involving a single plane...
Just after John Glenn's Friendship 7 plunked safely into the sea, a wiry, inconspicuous-looking man in rimless glasses hustled out of the Mercury control blockhouse at Cape Canaveral to telephone St. Louis. Moments later, 22,000 workers at the McDonnell Aircraft plant laid down their slide rules and wrenches to hear the boss's long-distance words piped over the public-address system. Said James Smith McDonnell, 62: "This is Mac calling all the team!" Then, after exulting over the orbital shot and praising the "great teamwork" that accomplished it, he signed off: "My congratulations...