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...intrument Anderson created for the ER-2s use lasers to detect molecules as the air flows through it. Because ER-2 aircraft do not have command communication with the ground, information is stored by an on board computer and is analyzed after the plane lands...
...first distinguished himself as a mediator in 1967, when looting and burning broke out in the ghettos of Detroit. Vance had just resigned as Deputy Secretary of Defense because of a ruptured disk. President Lyndon B. Johnson asked him to take command of the troops he was sending to quell the riots. Vance's back trouble was so incapacitating that he had to take his wife Gay with him to tie his shoelaces. His management of that crisis became a model for leaders in other cities during those long hot summers...
...modest, but he's not shy about making decisions," Rudenstine says of his new second-in-command...
Thompson, 51, is the founding director of the Program in Ethics and the Professions. He has only been at Harvard for five years, and Rudenstine may have preferred Green's long record of service here in choosing his second in command...
Today's appointment fleshes out Rudenstine'sfluid rhetoric. In an open letter to the Harvardcommunity last October, the president explainedhis argument for hiring a provost. Rudenstine saidhis second-in-command will plan and coordinateinterdisciplinary initiatives and programsinvolving more than one faculty...