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...Albert L. Nickerson, 47, Socony Mobil Oil Co. president since 1955, will become chief executive officer next month when Board Chairman B. (for Benjamin) Brewster Jennings, 59, retires after 37 years with the company. Nickerson, a New Englander who looks like Cinemactor Randolph Scott, came up fast. Graduating from Harvard in 1933, he joined Socony as a service-station attendant, moved up to become a director within 13 years. Despite the current domestic oil glut, he has spoken out strongly for continued imports on the ground that high-cost U.S. producers will be unable to match soaring future demand...
...Partisan. Last week, before an Army court-martial at Redstone Arsenal, with the house packed with newsmen, the curtain went up on The Case of Colonel Nickerson. It was soon obvious from the first act, and to no one's surprise, that the great drama had turned into something akin to a forum for Colonel Nickerson. First off, Nickerson pleaded guilty in effect to charges of laxity, whereupon the Army dropped the tough specifications about espionage and perjury (and thus reduced the sentence). Then, Nickerson's civilian counsel Ray H. Jenkins (of Army-McCarthy fame) produced...
When Colonel Nickerson himself took the stand, he delivered an earnest lecture on the Army's cherished conviction that it should have the right to operate missiles beyond the 200-mile-range limit laid down last fall (TIME, Dec. 10) by Defense Secretary Wilson. Then he had a few words for the Pentagon high command: "Their basic interests, the future they're seeking for themselves, is outlined by the money and jobs they expect to get in the aircraft industry. This is especially true in the Air Force...
...Philosopher. Jaws dropped momentarily when Nickerson's commanding officer, Major General John B. Medaris, began to testify. General Medaris told how he had ordered Nickerson not to get involved in Army v. Air Force bickering -Nickerson had disobeyed these orders "absolutely and diametrically," said General Medaris, and "he does not have any further value to the military service." Would Medaris ever want Nicierson back at the missile agency? "I would not." Reason: "Colonel Nickerson has violated the fundamental military code...
...sentence of $100 a month less in pay for 15 months, suspension of rank for a year, i.e., no command job, but eligible for staff work, loss of privileges, and a reprimand. "The nation can relax and breathe easier now," said Counsel Jenkins. "We did all right," said Colonel Nickerson. "What have I got to appeal? I was guilty and was properly punished. If there had been no sentence at all, it would have undermined discipline in the Army...