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James M. Hersog, of Quincy House and Lockport, N.Y., will study physiology at the University of Edinburgh. Philip D. Straffin, of Adams House and Scarsdale, N.Y., will do research in mathematics at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge...
Then there was the disclosure that Miller has been a $7,500-a-year director and assistant secretary of the Lockport (N.Y.) Felt Co. throughout his 14-year career in Congress, and has spoken at least twice on the House floor against bills adversely affecting the felt industry. "It's never been a secret," protested Miller. But he never exactly broadcast it around town either. For the fact is that few-if any-of his colleagues were aware of his official connection with the company when he was defending its interests in Congress. In addition, Miller owns...
Opening his formal campaign in home-town Lockport, N.Y., with Barry Goldwater at his side, Republican Miller laced into Humphrey's ties with that "most influential of the radical leftist groups in Washington," the Americans for Democratic Action. Humphrey was a founder of A.D.A., and until last week a vice chairman. He resigned that office, but retained his membership. "I think we have made some headway," cried Miller. "Hubert Humphrey at long last has finally resigned as vice chairman of A.D.A. Maybe he will resign as vice-presidential candidate of the Democratic Party...
...Loyalist's Name. Miller is the modern, urban equivalent of the candidate who was born in a log cabin-he is the son of a factory janitor in Lockport, N.Y. (pop. 27,300), an industrial suburb of Buffalo. He worked to help pay his way through Notre Dame and the Union University Law School at Albany, entered the service during World War II, was commissioned a first lieutenant in 1945 and assigned to the Judge Advocate General's war-crimes section, where he was an assistant prosecutor at the Nurnberg trials. Returning to New York, Miller was elected...
...lieutenant in the legal department. After the war, he became one of Justice Robert Jackson's bright young assistant prosecutors at the Nürnberg war-crimes trials. Returning to New York and moving into politics, he was elected to Congress in 1950. Torn between politics and his Lockport, N.Y. law practice, he nearly quit Congress in 1953. Instead, he took down his shingle and plunged full-time into his duties in the House, where he waged a dogged fight against public power projects (Niagara Falls and power-rich Niagara County are both in his home district...