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Politics: Familiar Names

Emerging from the White House last week after a foreign policy talk with President Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson had a tidbit for waiting reporters: he is considering running next year for the Illinois Senate seat now held by Republican Senate Leader Everett M. Dirksen.

Adlai said that he had been asked by Chicago's Democratic Mayor Richard J. Daley if he was "interested in running," and that he had discussed the possibility with President Kennedy. Stevenson plans to announce his final decision, to be "guided by the best interests...

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