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Back in 1960, when the only known source of X-rays in space was the sun (though astronomers suspected they would find other sources if they had the equipment to look for them), Riccardo Giacconi, then with American Sciences & Engineering and now a professor of Astronomy here, first proposed a method for using telescopes to take detailed X-ray photographs of distant objects...
...become a matter of survival. All the manufacturers are straining their technical, financial and managerial resources to the limit in an upheaval that will be felt at many levels of business and to one degree or another will touch the lives of almost all Americans. Says Chrysler Chairman John Riccardo: "In the next six years the industry faces a total revolution...
Many automen are shocked and angered. "We're breaking our butts trying to get to the numbers that Adams has got for us already," grouses Riccardo. Adds a Ford executive: "What he's calling for is the repeal of the law of thermodynamics." For all their misgivings, however, the industry's leaders have lately begun to realize the full dimensions of the problem facing the country. Says Henry Ford II: "The fuel issue is a national problem...
Reaching out to the edges of the known universe (10 billion light years), the observatory's x-ray telescope will be able to detect and study radiat resources at thousand times faint than those observed previously. Riccardo Giacconi, professor of Astronomy and director of the new satellite (dubbed the "Einstein Observatory"), said last week...
...Riccardo says he recruited Iacocca because Chrysler "needed additional firepower." While Ford and General Motors are both enjoying robust sales and profits, Chrysler is in the midst of its worst year since 1975, when it lost $260 million. The company lost $158.5 million in the third quarter alone, and its full-year deficit could reach $250 million. On the plus side, Chrysler in August sold its European automotive assets to France's Peugeot-Citroën in a deal that included $230 million in cash. Riccardo has announced that Peugeot-Citroën coughed up the $230 million this...