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...business abroad (see BUSINESS). Others are holding off business decisions until the future of trade regulations is clear, or until they see the fate of the Administration's depreciation allowance bill. Moreover, there is a suspicion that the Administration tends to penalize bigness. Said Albert L. Nickerson, chairman of Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc. "It seems to me illogical to 'think big' in terms of such activities as economic competition from Russia, space exploration and the conquest of poverty and disease, and then on the other hand to 'think small' in terms of the business...
...been observed before, there is also a freshman sailing team (happily). It has competed in four meets and managed to pull out a second in every one--out of fields of about ten teams. Last week, it qualified for next week's finals for the big Nickerson Trophy...
Describing the successful ascent of Albert W. Nickerson '62 and Leif-Norman Patterson, a graduate student at M.I.T., Everett said that "the work was physically and mentally straining, but no one ever complained about the scenery." Located in the Yukon, Mount Logan, almost 20,000 feet high, is the second highest mountain in North America...
...Overseers' Committee to visit Harvard College will be here Dec. 11 and 12, under the chairmanship of Albert L. Nickerson '32, who selected General Education as the topic last spring. They will talk with Finley, Paul H. Buck, who was Dean of the Faculty when the program was instituted, and with professors giving some of the big courses...
Following a bad storm in the evening, Nickerson and Patterson started for the summit on July 9, as the other three were to wait for a few hours before their ascent. A storm blew up, the trio was left below, and Nickerson and Patterson were caught near the summit. They made their way later through 50-mile-an-hour winds (at -5 or -10 degrees) with minimum visibility...