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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1972
Page
8
Former astronaut John Glenn, liberal Democrat, announces plan to run for the U.S. Senate from Ohio to unseat Republican Sen. William Saxbe. He stops in Jefferson City while maintaining fitness and expressing concern over the end of the moon program with Apollo 17.
Former Secretary of Defense Neil H. McElroy, a business executive and early defender during the space age, died of cancer at age 68 in Cincinnati. He led defense policy under Eisenhower and warned of a missile gap, later chairing educational commissions for Eisenhower and Nixon. He once headed Procter & Gamble before entering government.
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