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...Riccardo Giacconi, professor of Astronomy and a pioneer of modern x-ray astronomy, is leaving Cambridge to become the first director of NASA's new Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore...
Ormandy's hand-picked successor as music director will have an equally short season. Riccardo Muti, 38, will divide his time between Philadelphia and other posts in London and Florence, a trend among the newer generation of conductors that Ormandy laments. "These jet-set conductors, they jump from one place to another," he says. "At the end, they don't have their own children, their musical children. I belong to the school where you are married to only one orchestra and you live with it 24 hours...
...chairman of the committee is Jack P. Ruina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences. The two Harvard members are Riccardo Giacconi, professor of Astronomy and an expert in X-ray astronomy, and Richard L. Garwin, professor of Public Policy and a specialist in particle physics. The White House has refused to confirm the identities of committee members, and asked committee members not to comment on its findings...
...Riccardo Giacconi, professor of Astronomy and specialist in x-ray astronomy, is member of the ten-man panel George B. Field, director of the CFA, said yesterday...
...which would leave the taxpayers holding the bag if Chrysler defaulted on loans from private bankers, Miller bridled not only at the size of the financial package but also at the fact that Chrysler's plan did not include aid commitments from unions and local governments. He told Riccardo and Iacocca that about $750 million in loan guarantees was the limit for Government aid and that he wanted wider participation in the rescue operation...