Word: luckey
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...their less spectacular form, kidney diseases are among the most common causes of illness and death. Most patients recover, but each year in the U.S. 45,000 die of insufficient kidney function. Dr. E. Hugh Luckey, physician-in-chief at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, cited this somber statistic as introduction to a pair of hour-long seminars on renal diseases broadcast by New York's educational WNYC-TV Channel 31. Sponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine, the programs gave general practitioners and internists the latest word on diagnosis and treatment-much...
...form of longstanding kidney disease results in the progressive destruction of nephrons, until there are too few left to filter the blood adequately. This is the stage traditionally known as Bright's disease, in which pyelonephritis may be indistinguishable from glomerulonephritis. Kidney diseases are so interrelated, Dr. Luckey noted, that a patient who has had any one of them is predisposed to infections that cause pyelonephritis...
...drills in several years this fall, severe problems have begun to develop. The bandsman is not an ordinary individual, and his type of person is disappearing from Harvard scene, creating a crisis for the band. Six years ago the band numbered round 140; throughout this season Mike Marmor felt luckey to have 90 in the block. A decade ago the band was spelling out three and four words at a time; this year Marmor discovered that he didn't have enough men to spell Harvard. In previous years group spirit and loyalty was raising this fall was at a record...
Growled Major General R. B. Luckey. commanding officer at Camp Lejeune: "I don't know whether or not there were any marines at Tripoli. How the hell would I know? But I've believed it for 33 years, and I'm going to go right on believing...