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Republicans: Tough & Tested

Meeting in Washington last week, the Republican National Committee selected a new national chairman: New York's tough, energetic Representative William E. Miller, 47. He succeeds Kentucky's Republican Senator Thruston B. Morton, who was anxious to turn his attention to the problem of getting re-elected back home in 1962.

Miller is a darkly handsome Roman Catholic who graduated from Notre Dame and Albany Law School, entered the Army in World War II as a private, worked his way up to first lieutenant in the legal department. After the war, he became one of Justice Robert Jackson's bright young assistant prosecutors at...

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