Glenn: Flying Solo, His Way

Finally off the ground, with a candidacy both risky and uplifting

Looking to the presidential campaign, this article is the second in a series that will appear during 1983 probing the character and personality of each of the major candidates.

A denim jacket over his pinstripe suit and tie, John Glenn Jr. sat behind the controls of his ivory and red, twin-engine Beechcraft, ready to take off for a regular weekend of campaigning. It was 7 o'clock on a recent Friday morning, and today the candidate would head for Ohio, then loop all the way back to the northern tip of Maine. Glenn...

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