Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glenn had made it. As it later turned out, Glenn's heat shield had been in place all along; a monitor in the capsule had been flashing a misleading signal to the ground. But John Glenn could not be certain that he was safe until he saw that the parachute which would lower his capsule gently into the Atlantic had opened. Said he the next day: "That's probably the prettiest of sight you ever saw in your life...
Still trying to follow the flight plan, Glenn struggled for a moment to get out from the narrow upper exit of the capsule. But the capsule was stifling from the heat of reentry. "I'd been sweating for a long period of time," Glenn recalled, "and it seemed like the thing to do was to get on out of there at that time." He blew the side hatch, stepped out onto the deck of the Noa into the afternoon sun and was given a glass of iced tea. "It was hot in there," said John Glenn. His historic flight...
...flight across the heavens, John Glenn was a latter-day Apollo, flashing through the unknown, sending his cool observations and random comments to the earth in radio thunderbolts, acting as though orbiting the earth were his everyday occupation. Back on earth, Glenn seemed to be quite a different fellow?an enormously appealing man, to be sure, but as normal as blueberry pie. He had an engaging, small-town charm, a sturdy character that was etched in the lines on his face, an attractive family, and a deep faith in "a power greater than I am that will certainly see that...
...homely, American Gothic image was an understatement of the real man, for John Glenn seemed almost destined for last week's time of triumph. All of his adult years he has been pursuing the stars. As a test pilot and a combat flyer with 149 missions in World War II and Korea (he holds five Distinguished Flying Crosses and an Air Medal with 18 clusters), Glenn had lived with supersonic speed and the constant possibility of sudden death. To the millions who saw and heard him last week, it was obvious that John Glenn was a perfect choice to become...
...town in central Ohio, where his father, by turns, was a railroad conductor, the proprietor of a plumbing business, and the owner of the local Chevrolet agency. As a boy, he swam in Crooked Creek, hunted rabbits, played football and basketball, read Buck Rogers, was a great admirer of Glenn Miller, and blew a blaring trumpet in the town band.* Predominantly Presbyterian, New Concord's moral code was such that cigarettes were judged to be instruments of the Devil, and the kids nicknamed the town Saint's Rest. But even for New Concord, young Glenn's standards were strict...