Word: denham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...butylated hydroxytoluene, or BHT, to prolong the storage life of fats in a variety of products-from shortening to salad oil to potato chips. Now researchers are beginning to wonder if the preservative cannot also be used to prolong the life of man. That possibility is suggested by Biochemist Denham Harman of the University of Nebraska medical school. With regular feedings of BHT, he was able to lengthen the life span of a strain of laboratory mice by 50%. "In human terms," says Harman, "this is equivalent to increasing life expectancy from 70 years to 105 years...
...hero is a middle-aged Englishman named Denham who represents a trading firm in the Far East, and who spends a few months' home leave every other year. England, he feels, is decaying, and the trouble is too much freedom, too little stability, widespread amorality brought on by "the great democratic mess in which there's no hierarchy, no scale of values, everything's as good-and therefore as bad-as everything else." This dour viewpoint may be valid, as cocktail-hour philosophizing goes, but its polemical exposition in the first chapter damps the chemical process that...