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...Entertained Denmark's lively Prime Minister Jens Otto Krag and his actress wife Helle with a state dinner and dance. Luci Johnson, 16, enjoyed her first state party so much that she stopped the dance in a shoulder-shaking demonstration of the frug with Ricky Keaton, 17, son of a Houston electrical contractor. While guests applauded, a beaming Lyndon clapped out the beat. Luci and Keaton later drove off for a spin in Keaton's red sports...
What a mess! Required by constitutional amendment to redraw Illinois' political districts, the state legislature fussed and fought, finally had the only redistricting bill that it did pass vetoed by Democratic Governor Otto Kerner. Result: this year candidates for all 177 seats in the Illinois assembly must run in a statewide, at-large election. Moreover, a Republican-Democratic agreement since regularized by law prohibits either party from nominating more than 118 candidates-amounting precisely to a two-thirds assembly majority...
...year history of foreign aid that the committee had voted to give a President all he asked for. But Johnson wasn't home free. Still to come was the foreign aid appropriations bill, which would no doubt feel the paring knife of Louisiana's Democratic Representative Otto Passman, champion dasher of Presidential foreign aid hopes...
...Died. Otto Vigelmovich Kuusinen, 83, oldest member of the Soviet Union's aging twelve-man Presidium; of cancer; in Moscow. A native Finn, Kuusinen fled to Moscow in 1921 when a Russian-model Bolshevik revolution was crushed in his own country, became secretary of the Comintern, then returned home to rule over fellow Finns as puppet president of the 68,900-sq.-mi. Karelo-Finnish Republic, carved out of the eastern portion of Finland by Russia during World War II. His shrewd bet on Khrushchev in the post-Stalin power struggles won him a return ticket to Moscow...
...OTTO KERNER Governor of Illinois Springfield...