Bald "baby" Representative Jerry J. O'Connell in Montana's 1st Congressional District (western part of the State) was last week renominated by Montana Democrats. That event made little difference to most people except Montana's Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler. Nationally famed as a "liberal" before Mr. O'Connell, now 29, was wearing long pants, Mr. Wheeler, 56, has been pilloried as a "reactionary" by O'Connell's clamoring about the votes Burton Wheeler cast against the President's Supreme Court plan and the Government Reorganization bill. Loud Mr. O'Connell, who got national publicity by baiting Boss Frank...
MONTANA: Beat Wheeler
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