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Illinois. Democrat Otto Kerner, 52, a matinee-idol Cook County (Chicago) judge with an impeccable record, is being matched against lackluster Republican Incumbent William Stratton, 46, trying for an unprecedented third term on a record tinged with statehouse scandal. Judge Kerner, the favorite, has endorsements from such normally Republican papers as the Peoria Journal Star and Rockford Star...
Illinois: Chicago's Cook County cradles half the state's votes, and Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machine is purring at peak efficiency. Downstate, the Republican tide is at low ebb. G.O.P. Governor William Stratton, stuck with a scandal-seared administration, split the party by insisting on running for a third term. Traditionally Republican newspapers in Peoria, Moline, Pekin and Rockford have endorsed the Democratic candidate for Governor, Otto Kerner. Republicans say their polls put Nixon ahead 54-46 and Bobby Kennedy groans, "We're behind." But Democrats may yet take Illinois...
Last week M.I.T.'s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics was missing one of its wind tunnels. Materials-testing machines have disappeared from the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Explains M.I.T.'s President Julius A. Stratton: "The use of big commercial equipment suitable for stereotyped experiments is yielding to more imaginative approaches in which students are given an opportunity to undertake projects of their choice, and to benefit by a kind of internship under the guidance of a faculty member...
...will say, 'and give me the superpower antiknock Ethyl think juice, with vitamins added.' And sometimes you will drive off with a hole in your head, when the attendant forgets to replace the cap at the base of your skull." ¶M.I.T. President Julius Stratton, at Carleton College: "The impact of technology upon self-government is to subject the processes of democracy to a complete change of scale. In the massiveness of the effort, the influence of individual leadership is diffused and destroyed . . . Problems are of such colossal magnitude that it becomes virtually impossible to understand them...
SAMUEL S. STRATTON Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives Washington...