Education: Guggenheim Fellows

For the scientist, scholar, writer or artist who is awarded one, a Guggenheim Fellowship usually means a year of extracurricular leisure to work unhurriedly on a pet project. But last week the Guggenheim Foundation, awarding 82 fellowships for the coming year, found it necessary to warn its fellows that this is a year when leisure cannot be guaranteed; its awards are subject to interruption for calls to Government service. Example: Stanford University's Dr. Merrill Kelley Bennett, who went to Honolulu last summer as a Guggenheim fellow to study food, wound up as a statistician in the Food Control office, keeping tabs...

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