Word: nickerson
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Still a director of Mobil, Nickerson's resume reads like a textbook example of an industrial titan. He has been on the board of directors of six corporations and banks, the executive committee of the conservative National Alliance of Businessmen and the American Petroleum Institute. He has been chairman of the advisory committees of the U.S. Department of Commerce and of the Federal Reserve Board of New York. He is a trustee of Rockefeller University and the American Museum of Natural History, and a member of the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations. And since 1965, he has been a Fellow...
...Nickerson was not born into wealth. His grandfather had been a successful businessman, but was destroyed in the Panic of 1893, and died as a result of it. In his richer days, he had built a castle in Dedham modeled on one he had seen on the Rhine in Germany...
...after a steady financial downslide, the family was forced to sell the castle. It became the Noble and Greenough School, the middle-level prep school where Nickerson finished off his high school education...
...Harvard, Nickerson joined the Hasty Pudding, the Owl Club, one of the less prestigious final clubs, and the Stylus Club ("a very select drinking club," he recalls...
Tall and thin, with bristly white hair, Nickerson is still quite vigorous at 63. He is a Republican who tends toward the liberal wing and speaks with an aristocratic New England accent. A needle-point wall-hanging of a bald eagle holding the stars and stripes decorates one wall of the small study in his modest, modern ranch house in suburban Lincoln...