Word: derek
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Derek T. Winans '60, Chairman of the Harvard Freedom Council, whose request to address the Council was turned down last night, termed the Executive Committee action an attempt to postpone discussion until "the N.S.A. issue dies down." The Council is "under an obligation," he added, to hear his and others' protests now, because of the "hasty manner in which the subject was handled last Monday...
...time was a disappointment to Elliott. With no one pushing him, he complained, he had "faded a little" toward the end. All he had done was run a 3:57.8 mile, his fourth under four minutes and the second fastest ever. Only Britain's Derek Ibbotson. who last year was clocked in 3:57.2, has done better. But Ibbotson's time, like Elliott's, may never be accepted by the International Amateur Athletic Federation because both marks were made with the aid of "pacers.'' The world's record is still held by Australia...
...Ryan '60, defeated candidate for president of the Harvard Young Democratic Club, resigned yesterday his position on the Executive Committee at a heated meeting. He charged Derek T. Winans '60, president of the HYDC, with "preoccupation with power and prestige...
Last week Derek's application for a trucking license was reviewed at a public hearing. Representatives of the district's biggest trucking companies were on hand to state their views on the undesirability of admitting a competitor to their ranks. "This boy," said a representative of powerful Tyneside Removals Ltd., "is the type that might well work right around the clock. In five years he might replace us in the town." Warned a lawyer for Pickford's Ltd.: "While I hardly think he is a threat to Pickford's, one must remember that my firm...
...Sadly Derek sold his truck, bought some ledgers, and went back to work with his horse and cart. Said he, in a forthright and unwitting commentary that revealed much about what is wrong with Britain's economy and its laws for the protection of the entrenched: "If they work as hard as I do, they've got nothing to worry about...