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...HERETIC (436 pp.)-Fitzroy Maclean-Harper...
...Author Fitzroy Maclean, prewar member of the British diplomatic service (Paris, Moscow), is a Conservative M.P. who parachuted into Yugoslavia during the war, commanded the British military mission at Tito's headquarters. He clearly grew to like Tito as a man, while disliking nearly everything the man symbolizes. Maclean quotes the old Balkan adage-"Behind every hero stands a traitor"-in an attempt to explain the ambiguities of the Croatian farm boy who managed to outwit and outfight the Nazis, defy his allies of both East and West, survive the deadly infighting in his own Yugoslav Communist Party...
...experiment of its kind in the country. Though its original nine members were skeptical at first, they gradually began to realize how much they had lost by clinging to the competitive tradition of each campus for itself. "Cooperation comes hard at first," says the center's administrator. Herbert Fitzroy. "But once you get everybody thinking cooperatively about one thing, they're talking cooperatively about 18 things." Eventually, four more campuses joined up, and though the center still depends on outside grants, its members* now chip in $42,000 of their own. It is money well spent. "For every...
Successful as it has been so far, Administrator Fitzroy claims that the center idea will be a must for small colleges in the future. "Some colleges." says he, "act as if they were in the 18th century, as if no good highways, telephones or modern communications exist. We ought to face the fact that the big-name institutions will be able to take care of only a limited number of the deluge of students in the next few years. We must be concerned more and more with putting the small colleges in shape to meet the deluge. This is where...
...FITZROY DAVIS...