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...flat-bellied 168. To train himself to handle a capsule tumbling out of control through space, Glenn spent hours spinning giddily in the fiendishly contrived "Mastif" (multiple axis space test inertia facility) that simultaneously rotated him in three directions, like a carnival ride gone amok. Time and again he rode the giant centrifuge that multiplied gravitational pull to simulate the strains of take-off and landing. Despite his years, Glenn showed the least heart fluctuation of any astronaut. (At lift-off last week, Glenn's pulse rate was a relatively placid no beats per minute. Shepard's rate...
William K. Douglas, 39, flight surgeon, declared Glenn physically fit for the flight after making a final examination, rode up with him in the gantry elevator to see that he was properly placed in the capsule and that all the electronic monitors attached to his body were working, then carefully monitored and fed Glenn's in-flight physical reactions to Chris Kraft. Douglas was certified in aviation medicine in 1956; he took his premed study at the University of New Mexico, his M.D. at the University of Texas, and postgraduate training at Johns Hopkins University. He could write...
...Trail from Independence and finally settled in Arizona. There, on the Salt River, eight miles from a farm village that is now Phoenix, he built a flour mill, started a ferry, opened a general store, a blacksmith shop and a freighting business. Young Carl swam in the Salt River, rode a pet bull while driving cows, recalls seeing Apache fire signals burning at night on nearby Four Peaks. He went to Stanford in 1896 and, as a strapping 6-ft. 220-pounder, played center on the football team. In his senior year his father died, and Hayden left college without...
...pick out the one wife you want to keep and then tell the other two that you don't want them." The chief sat in silence for a few minutes, then grunted: "You tell 'em." Hayden knew when he was whipped; he got on his horse and rode back to Phoenix...
Three times during the week, Jackie fled to Glen Ora in the Virginia countryside, where she rode to the hounds on a brown and white horse named Rufus. The hounds found no foxes, managed only to scatter a few deer. Then, turning from riding breeches to a white satin sheath skirt, a black overblouse and diamond earrings, Jackie was hostess at another of the White House parties she has initiated for performers of the fine arts. The guest of honor: famed Composer and occasional Pianist Igor Stravinsky, 79, a native of Russia who has been a U.S. citizen since...