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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...

Author: By From WIRE Reports, | Title: Truman Seen Packing Furiously, Said to Plan Trip to Local Area | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Big Boys at Play | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Big Boys at Play | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Pre-Fab Blizzard' Wins Quincy Paper Plane Test | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Pre-Fab Blizzard' Wins Quincy Paper Plane Test | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

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