Word: elixir
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...Manchester book, the pertinent details-nor even the drama. As for style, it simply clogs the mind. Concerning Kennedy's arrival in Dallas, for example, Bishop writes: "This multiphrenic city sitting alone on a hot prairie like an oasis spouting a fountain of silver coins gave its elixir to John F. Kennedy." In the hospital, the body of Kennedy did not just lie there. "The clay of John F. Kennedy was cooling." When L.B.J. wanted to talk to Kenny O'Donnell and Larry...
...catalogue lists a variety of capsules, tinctures, pills and boluses calculated to cure almost any known ailment, physical or mental. There were worm cakes and a highly touted microbe killer ("Will prevent LaGrippe, Catarrh, Consumption, Malaria, Blood Poison, Rheumatism and all disorders of the blood"). There was also an elixir "guaranteed to destroy all desire for liquor" and a magical tonic called "Peruvian wine of cocoa" that was recommended "if you wish to accomplish double the amount of work or have to undergo an unusual amount of hardship." Arsenic wafers were offered to tone up the complexion, and an "electric...
...action of body chemicals called "free radicals." These oxidizing agents touch off reactions that Harman believes cause bodily changes like hardening of the arteries, a commonly accepted sign of aging. BHT, on the other hand, is an antioxidant, a substance that retards those oxidizing reactions. It works its elixir-of-youth magic in mice, says Harman, by soaking up their free radicals like a powerful chemical sponge...
...opened the door a chink for a glimpse into an admittedly farout future. If a reasonably pure extract of brain DNA is injected into some animals, he said, their protein synthesis doubles within an hour. But he was careful to insist: "This does not mean that an elixir of life has been found." Hard facts remaining to be determined, he said, are whether this is a "functionally valuable or a nonsense protein," and whether the effect will last for days, hours or years...
...nation noted for its scarcity, Spain's 7 billion gallon surplus of sherry and domestic table wine would seem to be a bonanza. Not so. The average Spaniard scorns the local elixir in favor of spectacularly overpriced bottles of Scotch. Now Spain's Agriculture Minister, Adolfo Díaz-Ambrona, 59, has appealed to his countrymen to ease "the problem of domestic underconsumption." Noting that the Spaniards consume only half as much wine per capita as the Frenchmen, the government is starting a huge advertising campaign for wine-and doubling the import duties on Scotch...