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Michael was born in Zürich, Switzerland, August 26, 1925 to German Jewish parents, Jacob and Erna Michael, and lived his early years in Berlin. Forseeing the burgeoning threat of Nazism, his family moved to The Hague, Netherlands in 1932, and then to New York in 1939. Michael attended Horace Mann High School. His undergraduate career at Cornell University was interrupted by service in United States Navy (1944-46) where he served aboard the USS Kwajalein. He then returned to Cornell where he received his B.A. in 1947.