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HE was a hero in two of America's wars, then a fabled test pilot, a four-term senator, a presidential candidate, finally a party elder. But in the mind's eye and in history, John Herschel Glenn Jr. is frozen in time.
His boyhood friends, his wartime comrades and his Senate colleagues have grown old, and some have died. His political causes are yesterday's, their urgency gone, the stuff of the past rather than the right stuff of today. But John Glenn remains what he was when he became a staple of black-and-white television and the color pictures of Life magazine, two media themselves both gone:
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden made these remarks today during a ceremony in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, where leaders of Congress honored astronauts John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins with congressional gold medals:
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Stephen E. Maher (argued and briefed), Attorney General's Office of Ohio, Capital Crimes Section, Columbus, OH, for Appellee.
Before SUHRHEINRICH, SI...
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WASHINGTON, July 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA commemorates the 90th birthday of astronaut John Glenn. The pioneering explorer was the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth and also was the oldest person to fly to space when he launched on the space shuttle in 1998.
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By KEVIN LYNCH
Daily Record Sports Writer
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By KEVIN LYNCH
Daily Record Sports Writer
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COLUMBUS -- John H. Glenn was 21 when he went off to fight in World War II.
He was 40 when he became the first American to orbit the earth.
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The Honorable John Glenn, Democratic National Convention, Wednesday, July 28, 2004
The following is a transcript of remarks (as prepared for delivery) by the Honorable John Glenn at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, July 28, 2004:
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Martin R. Raskin, Miami, Florida (Raskin & Raskin, Miami, Florida, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellant Reifler.
Richard Ware Levitt, New York, New...