The Michigan Daily--Wednesday, July 14, 1982-Page 5
'No strings'
grants awarded
to achievers
CHICAGO (AP)- Nineteen "excep-
tionally talented" Americans have
been given grants of up to $300,000 each
over the next five years to pursue their
goals without worrying about making a
living, the MacArthur Foundation an-
nounced yesterday.
"MacArthur Prize Fellows receive
these grants with absolutely no strings
attached," said Gerald Freund, direc-
tor of the grants program and former
dean of humanities and arts at New
York City's Hunter College.
"THEY CAN use them in any way
they want to. The purpose is to free
these exceptionally talented individuals
from economic pressures and from
other impediments to pursue their own
goals."
This year's group includes people in
such diverse fields as theoretical
physics, film-making and an-
thropology, according to John Corbally,
president of the John and Catherine
MacArthur Foundation, a philanthropic
organization.
They include 69-year-old Conlon Nan-
carrow, who composes primarily for
player piano; 47-year-old Robert
Moses, a graduate student at Harvard
University, and 30-year-old Dr. Fran-
cesca Rochberg-Halton, a University of
Chicago historian.
A TOTAL of $4 million was given to
the 19 under the program funded
through the will of the late John MacAr-
thur, who died in January 1978 after
making a fortune in the insurance
business and real estate.
The grants program was begun last
year when 41 recipients were awarded
a total of about $10 million, Freund
said. The foundation expects to name
another group later this year or early
next year, he said.
The winners are chosen among
scores of candidates submitted by 100
anonymous "talent scouts" in many
fields from around the nation to an
anonymous 13-member selection com-
mittee.
THE INDIVIDUAL grants range
from $24,000 to $60,000 annually, depen-
ding on their age, and from a total of
$128,000 to $300,000.
"It's really unbelievable," said
Rochberg-Halton. "I feel overwhelmed
and honored by this award."
An expert in the field of Assyrian
history at the university's Oriental In-
stitute, she said she plans to use the
grant to make at least "one trip a year"
to London to the British Museum.
Ralph Shapey, a composer and
professor of music at the University of
Chicago, said, "I'm still coming out of a
daze ... I know that the next five years
are guaranteed, in a sense---that if I
want to takea year off and do a special
project, now I can."
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Queens 'chat with
prowler described
LONDON (AP) - The lawyer of the "THE FIRST person to enter her
man who sneaked into Queen Elizabeth room was a chambermaid 10 minutes af-
II's bedroom said the prowler spent ter the intruder got in. Police arrived
"just over 10 minutes" talking with the another eight minutes after that - when
monarch about the royal family before the chambermaid had already led the
a chambermaid led him away. man away. The chambermaid handed
After visiting his client at Brixton the man over to a footman ...," the
Prison, attorney Maurice Nadeem said Standard said.
in a television interview that 31-year- The British Broadcasting Corp.
old Michael Fagan had been to reported that the queen tried to push a
Buckingham Palace "twice - no more,' "panic" button in her room but it failed
despite press reports he broke into the to go off. Asked about the two reports, a
royal residence as many as 12 times. Scotland Yard spokesman said: "We
Asked by Independent Television are not prepared to discuss either of
News if Fagan had explained why he them."
did it, the lawyer said: "Yes, he wished
to see Her Majesty the queen." WITH BRITAIN in an official flap
HE SAID Fagan and the 56-year-old over what one front page story termed
queen talked about her family, and the a "national crisis," Fagan's mother
monarch mentioned her eldest son, was quoted as saying she would write to
Prince Charles. The conversation en- the queen to apologize.
ded when a maid came in and Fagan
was taken away, Nadeem said. The original Daily Express account
The London Standard newspaper, in put the incident at 3 a.m. and said the
its final afternoon edition, offered a new queen chatted with the man for 10
version of the breach of palace minutes before using his request for a
security, which has caused a furor in cigarette as an excuse for summoning a
Parliament, the press and among the footman who detained him.
The paper said the queen used her "The way she handled it, to talk to
bedside telephone to raise the alarm him and keep calm, was absolutely
when awakened by the intruder at marvelous. Now I plan to write to her
about 7 am. Friday, but the palace to apologize. It's not very much, given
police officer failed to realize the what has happened, but what else can I
urgency of her message because she do? I am deeply sorry,"Fagan's mother
was so calm. was quoted as saying.
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