Word: moll
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Richard W. Moll, a recent Assistant Director of Admissions at Yale, directs ASPAU. Coming out of Indian-apolis. Moll attended DePauw University, and then transferred to Duke where he got his B.A. in 1956. While he was choosing yet another generation of Yalies, Moll found time to complete his studies there for a divinity degree in 1961. He took a leave of absence, came to work for ASPAU, and stayed...
...desires of the member U.S. colleges which want international representation in their student bodies, and the needs of the emerging African nations intent on training students in a limited number of specific technical fields like engineering, agriculture, or animal husbandry. "We keep asking ourselves: Who is our master?" Moll says, "the American colleges eager to educate Africans in a variety of disciplines, or the Africans in a variety of disciplines, or the African nations insisting on specialized technology...
ASPAU is operating at the time of the "Great Interim," according to Moll, "when African higher education cannot yet absorb all of its own secondary school graduates...
...when the program began," Moll recounts, "the African nations were not very sophisticated in appraising their manpower needs, and so we would sweep in and pick up the best and brightest students in any subject...
Though police trace the mayhem back to the McLaughlin-McLean contretemps-a falling-out romantically attributed to a slur on one mug's moll-they theorize that other motives have since arisen. Many of the victims made their living as loan sharks. This is big, if disorganized, business in Boston's lower crust. The "vigorish," or profit, is estimated at $1,000,000 a week. With that kind of take, the competition for trade is bound to be keen. As might be expected, the surplus of bodies has been accompanied by a dearth of witnesses and evidence. Just...