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Announcement of Awards

the Foundation: John Simon Guggenheim Humanities Endowment Senior Fellowships Memorial Foundation, 90 Park Avenue, New York, Four political scientists recently have received New York 10016. Senior Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. They are: The nine political scientists receiving 1972 Guggenheim Fellowships and their topics are: Gabriel Almond, Stanford University Karl W. Deutsch, professor of government, Harvard Vernon B. Van Dyke, University of Iowa University: A general theory of politics.

Loren P. Beth, University of Massachusetts George Kateb, professor of political science, Amherst College: A study of the radical critique Walter Gellhorn, of liberal democracy.

Everett C. Ladd, Jr., professor of political science, South Carolina Department of Political Science University of Connecticut: The political responses Fellowship in Public Law to social change in the American experience. The University of South Carolina's Department of Joseph LaPalombara, Arnold Wolfers professor of Political Science has received a $27,000 grant political science, Yale University: The role of from the Charles L. Jacobson Foundation to public bureaucracies in effecting political and establish fellowships in public law. social change. The fellowships will be for doctor of philosophy Seymour M. Lipset, professor of government and candidates in the public law field, which includes social relations, Harvard University: Studies of the the study of jurisprudence, comparative law, political role of intellectuals. constitutional law and the judicial system. Hanna Pitkin, associate professor of political Dr. James E. Larson, head of the USC political science, University of , Berkeley: Studies science department, said the principal or income of the nature of self and its significance for from the grant will provide three or four politics. fellowships each year. The department will recruit outstanding graduate students from leading Melvin Richter, professor of political science, colleges and universities as recipients of the Hunter College, City University of New York: fellowships. French political and social theory from Montesquieu to Aron. Recipients will be selected by a committee from the political science department consisting of Wayne Wilcox, professor of political science, Larson, Prof. M. Glenn Abernathy and Prof. Columbia University: A comparative study of the William P. Kreml. organization, extension, and management of public authority in South Asia. The Charles L. Jacobson Foundation, established in the 1950's by Jacobson, a former executive with Neal Wood, professor of political science, York Chrysler Corp. in Detroit, provides aid to a variety University: A study of 's social and of philanthropic causes. political thought.

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship Awards The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation has awarded fellowships for 1972 to nine political scientists. The fellowships are designed to assist in improving the quality of education and the practice of the arts and professions, to foster research, and to provide for the cause of better international understanding. Further information on the Fellowship Program may be secured by writing

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