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...blew up in March when the state senate refused to approve a $5,100,000 emergency appropriation to cover welfare payments for May and June. The legislators wanted new ceilings clamped on payments to individual families, which sometimes exceeded $500 a month. While Illinois' ineffectual Democratic Governor Otto Kerner bargained and pleaded with the senate, 352,000 people on the relief rolls began to go hungry...
...likeliest-looking office is Illinois governorship in 1964, and during a television appearance last month, Shriver indicated that he had his eye on that job. This produced acute jitters in the insecure incumbent, Democrat Otto Kerner, who serves at the pleasure of Chicago Boss Richard Daley...
Seeking reassurance, Kerner obtained qualified support from Daley, and last week was able to announce that Shriver "wrote me a letter-and I still have it-in which he indicated that he will not be a candidate." Shriver had indeed written to Kerner, but was careful to say he would support the Governor "if" he were a candidate for reelection. With Daley and Shriver both hedging, Kerner was hardly secure...
...crime he was convicted for- a 1953 holdup slaying-was apparently the act of an angry young Negro who went wrong in an environment where nobody ever found it easy to go right. Last summer, when he was only hours away from the electric chair, Illinois Governor Otto Kerner finally yielded to mounting national pressure and commuted Crump's sentence to life imprisonment (TIME, Aug. 10). Why? Because Crump, in the course of his imprisonment, had become an entirely different personality. And one of the many things that helped to transform him was working on a novel...
...stableboy rushed up with Russell's crutches, and bare-legged chorus girls swarmed around his sulky. "How's your ankle?" Illinois Governor Otto Kerner asked solicitously. Replied happy Hambletonian Winner Russell, contemplating his 10% cut of A.C.'s Viking's $62,854 purse: "I forgot I even...