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." Support the March of ()Dime BIRTH DEFECTS FOUNDATION Doily Photo by DOUG McMAHON No violation This city sign seems parked for good underneath a local meter yesterday. 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. 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