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    "ocrText": "Interview with Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Jr.\n19\nI think there was one event, though, from which he got a\nbig kick. At least he laughed and laughed when I told him\nabout it. The Titovs had been invited to our home for\ndinner the second evening they were here. This had been\nturned down, through the Embassy, because their schedule\nwas very busy. But the same evening they had been invited\nto our home, there was a reception at the Russian Embassy\nand we went to this reception for the Titovs. As we came\nto the end of the receiving line one of the people from\nour State Department met me and asked me if anyone had told\nme that they [the Titovs] had just accepted our dinner\ninvitation to our home, this at 6:30 in the evening--and\nthey were planning to leave the Embassy at 7 to come to our\nhome. Well, needless to say, there had been no preparation\nmade, since the dinner invitation had been previously\ndeclined. I took Annie and Louise Shepard, who was also\nthere with Al, and away we went to Arlington as rapidly as\nwe could, to get things squared away for the impending\ndinner party a half hour later. Bart Fugler, from NASA\nHeadquarters, who was handling security, came out with us\nand he called the Arlington police for additional security\npeople. They immediately sent a motorcycle detail. We\nsent the first ones who arrived off to the Seven Eleven\nmarket after frozen peas for the dinner and some other\naccessories that we needed. Annie meanwhile canvassed the\nneighborhood for frozen steaks that we could grill over\ncharcoal.\nI meanwhile started the fire in two charcoal burners. To\nhelp us out timewise, I brought out a couple of little\nelectric fans to help get the charcoal started. Well, this\nworked to perfection. In fact, too well, for it wasn't very\nmany minutes until I had a fire going that was like the\nvillage smithy's forge. I could just about have melted\nsteel in the fire that we had. Meanwhile, Annie and Louise\nkicked off their shoes and were hard at work. They were\nthawing steaks in the oven and were making salad. I threw\nthe steaks onto the grill over the charcoal fire, and in a\nfew seconds the fat started dripping and making some flame.\nI went in the house to get water to control the fire, and"
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