Job Security?

Like any normal, healthy Kennedy kinsman, the President's brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, has political ambitions. Having successfully launched the Peace Corps, Shriver would like to go onward and upward to elective office in Illinois.

The 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 for '64.

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