Word: piel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fair. To keep the competition equally fair, the neutral students were tapped again as launchers, and contestants were separated into nonprofessionals and professionals (subscribers or people employed in aviation). As the paper planes swooped, looped and soared around the 96-ft.-high dome, Scientific American Publisher Gerard Piel, 52, called out the maneuvers on a p.a. system: "There's a snap stall-a pair of Immelmanns and a chandelle-a barrel roll-and a series of butterfly dives...
...First prize goes to this three-stage pre-fabricated blizzard," said Gerald Piel, publisher of Scientific American. A sinister man, later identified as a Boeing agent, bent for a close look at Ken Chang's creation, winner of the Oregami division of Quincy House's paper airplane contest...
Rufus Lumry's mighty heave won the distance test. His missile crashed into the far wall, dead center, four feet above the fireplace. Piel, the head judge, awarded him an "appropriate prize" -- typewriter paper...
Preliminary eliminations will take place on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. Finalists will then be selected for Thursday's competition. Piel will present appropriate prizes...
...Gerald Piel, publisher of Scientific American, will determine the winners. Charles W. Dunn, Master of Quincy House, will also serve on the panel of judges. commenting on Master Dunn's credentials, Reiser observed last night that "the Wright brothers are said to be of Celtic origin." Master Dunn is professor of Celtic Languages...