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...Long Wak...
...solution. Doctors hope ultimately for a machine so small and efficient that it would be inconspicuous when worn. The University of Utah's Dr. Willem Kolff, inventor of the original dialysis machine, reports progress toward that goal. He and his collaborators have developed an 8-lb. machine dubbed WAK (for wearable artificial kidney) that lets a patient walk around periodically during dialysis while it is hung from a shoulder band or strapped to the chest...
...infield had Russ Johnson at first, Wak Greeley at second, Ed Krinsky at short, and Tim Wise at third, with Dick Clasby going all the way behind the plate...
Sunday 5 a.m. we arrived at our jumping-off point. . . . Try and sleep and find it impossible and then the news comes through that our plans have to be changed. The road to El Wak is mined and the Banda are strung in front of the fort in very large numbers and it's our job with A Company in front to mop them...
...Wak fort and a post strongly held in front of it were being shelled throughout our advance and had already been taken when the colonel and C Company moved up. A Company is placed in reserve and we are told to march back to our transport, which is moving up along the road to meet us. We literally stagger along the road. One of my blokes falls, all he can say is, "Water! Water!" and then he passes out and is picked up by ambulance and is taken back. We reach the transport and collapse beneath the trucks which provide...