Word: piel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Consumer resistance shows up most sharply in home furnishings and appliances. "We went to four different places before we finally bought a color TV set," says Norma Piel, a Pittsburgh housewife, "and I'm sure that we saved at least $100." Apparel sales are strong almost everywhere, but stores in Los Angeles and St. Louis report a declining demand for shoes, partly because the new styles, which many people consider ugly, have not really caught on. The fur industry is having its shabbiest year in decades; women are not buying as many minks and Persian lambs as in recent...
Even titles of theses, Piel pointed out, become incomprehensible to students outside of the writer's discipline...
...another speech before two groups, Gerald Piel '37, publisher of Scientific American and a member of the Board of Overseers, bemoaned the increasing separation of arts from sciences and the increasing belief that they cannot understand each other well...
Also Herbert Wechsler, Stone Professor of Law at Columbia; Gerard Piel '37, publisher of Scientific American; Lincoln Gordon '33, new president of Johns Hopkins; Konrad Lorenz, author of on Aggression; Meyer Schapiro, Columbia art historian completing his year as Charles Eliot Norton Visiting Professor of Poetry; Sen. Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass.); Roy Orval Greep, former dean of the School of Dental Medicine and now head of the Med School's Reproduction Center...
...contest was inspired, says Publisher Piel, by hopes of a design breakthrough applicable to supersonic transport. According to the judges, none appeared. Said Princeton Professor David C. Hazen: "We've seen nothing we haven't seen before." Publisher Piel was not discouraged. He sticks with his original postulate that "there is, right now, flying down some hallway or out of some movie-house balcony in Brooklyn, the aircraft that will make the SST 30 years obsolete." But Piel's seven-year-old daughter Nelle remained unconvinced. Said she: "I think it's silly...