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...Place in Society. Last week the Southern editors finally got firsthand coverage of the racial angle in New York's school problem from a first-rate Southern reporter. To cover the story in depth the United Press assigned able, Georgia-born Alfred G. Kuettner, the U.P.'s longtime Atlanta bureau chief. Promised the U.P.'s Executive Editor Harry Ferguson: "If there are any squawks, I'll be your lawyer...
Hard-driving Reporter Kuettner, 44, spent a week prowling the city from the cluttered streets of East Harlem to the seedy side of Brooklyn, talked to school officials and students, white and Negro members of teen-age gangs, storekeepers and social workers, judges and Mayor Robert Wagner. Result: a perceptive, carefully documented three-part series. Reporter Kuettner's conclusion: "You cannot in honesty find that actual racial conflict is causing the rampage of juvenile delinquency. You cannot but admit that Negroes, white children and Puerto Ricans get along amiably in their classes...
Most of the pilots were scientists-chiefly meteorologists, electronics engineers, aerodynamicists-who devoted their spare time and their rainy hours to such pursuits as lectures by Geophysicist Joachim Kuettner on "A New Investigation of Stratospheric and Tropospheric Airflow in Powerful Mountain Waves," or "Research on the Transport of Freezing Nuclei and on Atmospheric Turbulence by Means of a Sailplane...
...Queney and Holmboe will do most of their work on the ground with pencils and scratch pad. The chief practical scientist of the airwave project is German-born Dr. Joachim Kuettner, former world record glider pilot, who will fly and watch others fly into the waves themselves...
...waves that can lift an insulated, pressurized glider up to 42,000 ft. Flying gliders into these windy elevators has become a popular hair-raising sport, and the flights of the Southern California Soaring Association are an ideal means of investigating the waves. Working with the glider pilots, Dr. Kuettner will bring back information from which Drs. Queney and Holmboe hope to work out a way of predicting the wind's behavior...