The Rockefeller Foundation today announced a total of $93,100 in grants to Israeli and American Jewish educational and research institutions. The largest single grant was for $62, 000 to the Israel Foundations Trustees in Jerusalem for continued research in the Virus Laboratory of the Israeli Ministry of Health on relationships of insect-transmitted viruses.
The announcement said that Dr. Natan Goldblum and his co-workers at the Virus Laboratory had “contributed greatly to understanding of the clinical aspects” of West Nile fever and that the grant would enable the Israeli virus experts “to expand and intensify their research. ” The sum of $5, 000 was allocated to Dr. Curt Wormann, director of the Jewish National and University Library at Hebrew University, for visits to American librarian and library schools.
The sum of $20, 600, including an outright grant of $5, 000 for use as working capital, was given to the YM-YWHA poetry Center in New York City for support for the next three years. The announcement said the poetry center “has made it possible for many people to hear such poets as W. H. Auden, T. S, Eliot, Robert Frost and the late Daylan Thomas read and comment on their own and others’ work. “
A grant of $5, 500 was made to Dr. John P. Roche, chairman of the Department of Politics at Brandeis University, to complete a study of the changing nature of American liberty.
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