Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio "details...
...Gates Mills, Ohio...
John Herschel Glenn Jr., 37, Marine lieutenant colonel; 180 lbs, 5 ft. 10½ in., green eyes, red hair (thinning in front). Presbyterian (Sunday school teacher). Born: Cambridge. Ohio; attended Muskingum College at New Concord, Ohio (1939-42), but quit to enter service in 1942. Glenn is the Astronauts' top-ranking, most experienced officer (more than 5,000 flight hours, 1,500 in jets), has seen the most combat (59 World War II fighter-bomber missions in the Pacific, 100 missions, three MIGs downed in Korea), carries the weightiest decorations (five Distinguished Flying Crosses, 19 Air Medals...
...graduated Purdue University, '50 (mechanical engineering). "Gus" Grissom broke in as a World War II air cadet, then went back to school, rejoined in 1950, flew 100 Korean combat missions (D.F.C., two Air Medals). Later he took advanced work in aeronautical engineering at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, became a test pilot, logged up 3,200 flight hours (2,100 in jets). Says he: "My career has been in service to my country, and here is another opportunity to serve...
...going to the country for a decision," thus be able to march on the Los Angeles convention as the people's choice. To do it, he is willing to run in the primaries that would do him the most good: Oregon, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire. Due soon in Wisconsin to give the first big test to Kennedy findings and theories: Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey...