Word: ohio
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Last week in Houston, John Glenn, the 77-year-old senior Senator from Ohio, was learning his way around another potentially lethal flying machine. Clad in a blue full-body garment shot through with a webwork of cooling tubes, he stepped into a NASA training room at the Johnson Space Center and glanced at a space-shuttle simulator standing in front of him. A technician then helped him struggle into a heavy orange flight suit. Stuffed into the backpack of the 90-lb. pressure garment was a huge load of survival equipment: a life preserver, an emergency food and water...
...doctors were less ambivalent. By early this year, they had finished their preliminary reviews and concluded that both Glenn's science and his health were sound enough to justify the mission. Shortly afterward, on Jan. 15, Glenn was in his Senate office meeting with a group of constituents from Ohio State University when he got word that Goldin was on the line...
...headdresses. The crowd at the Riverbend amphitheater roars its agreement: 18,500 otherwise respectable people, many in full tropical regalia--foam parrot hats, grass skirts and coconut-shell bras. And that's just the men. (Let's not even discuss the folks dancing naked on their boats in the Ohio River, right behind the stage.) Buffett's fans, the Parrotheads--so named by a friend of Buffett's at a Cincinnati, Ohio, show in 1986--have made tonight his 35th consecutive sell-out in this city, the kind of middle-American burg where people are thirstiest for Buffett's cheerful...
...soon-to-be-empty malls as schools or prisons--we apparently need both pretty badly! It is truly a shame that we did not invent the Internet before shopping malls. THOMAS F. SHERER Vienna, Ohio...
WHERE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME, CLEVELAND, OHIO...