Word: wicks
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...GOOD THAT there was sufficient worldwide protest against his nomination to convince Wolfgang Wick, a former member of the Austrian Nazi party and of the S.S., to withdraw as a candidate for the presidency of the Rotary International. But it speaks ill of that organization, and specifically of its central nominating committee, that Wick's candidacy was not terminated immediately after authoritative information about his sordid and criminal past became known. And it is to the discredit of the Boston Rotary chapter that they made no formal protest of the Wick nomination and instead professed a desire to wait until...
...member of the Nazi party, even during the period when it was illegal in Austria, and as a member of the S.S., the party's genocidal elite, Wick was obviously an enthusiastic participant in Hitlerism. That men like him escaped trial and imprisonment and were allowed to rejoin society without paying any penalty is in itself unfortunate; according an honor to Wick is a repugnant offense to the memory of those who died at the hands of the barbarous organizations to which he belonged...
Austrian industrialist Wolfgang Wick resigned his nomination to the presidency of Rotary International yesterday, a week after revelation of his past membership in the Nazi party...
Marla Miller '76, a Rotary Fellowship winner who had said Wednesday she would reject the award if Wick triumphed, said yesterday several professors and about 50 students had congratulated her for her stand. But she said no other Rotary winners had approached her to join the boycott...
Meanwhile Captain Pam Mack '77 finished fifth in the Emily Wick Regatta...