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...could easily run for either governor or senator in 1968. He probably would not challenge Senator Everett M. Dirksen, but if Dirksen declines to run for medical reasons, he might be tempted to seek that seat. More likely he will try for governor, his father's old office. Governor Otto Kerner would like a third term but the party might junk him in deference to Stevenson if Stevenson demonstrates vote-getting power...
...Died. Otto Spaeth, 69, industrialist and art patron who made a fortune in real estate and machine tools (Dayton Tool & Engineering Co.), used it to build a notable private art collection, including masterpieces by Braque, Picasso, Corot, Gauguin and Cezanne, but in recent years concentrated more on aiding lesser-known contemporary artists and working to improve church architecture through his Spaeth Foundation awards; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Otto Eckstein, professor of Economics, delivered this speech at the National Conference of the Urban League in Philadelphia this August. Eckstein is a former member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors...
Ratifying the Changes. The code was in tatters by 1953, when the Motion Picture Producers Association refused to grant its seal of approval to Otto Preminger's The Moon Is Blue, because it dealt frivolously with seduction. Preminger thumbed his nose and distributed the picture anyway, benefiting from reams of publicity about the dialogue, which actually dared to use the word virgin...
...from something called the Institute for Direct Art. Black-shirted Hermann Nitsch gave a demonstration of his popular Blutorgie (blood orgy), in which he tore apart the cadaver of a freshly slain lamb, also gave a learned lecture on the "liberation of violent urges through catharsis." His colleagues, Otto Miihl and Gunter Brus, held an audience of 100 spellbound in St. Bride Foundation Institute when they smeared Susan Kahn, a visiting New York schoolteacher clad only in a black strapless bra and black panties, from head to toe with flour, crushed ripe tomatoes, beer, raw egg, brightly colored powdered paints...