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...runs naturally up California's Sacramento River. (In the 19th century, sturgeon were so plentiful in East Coast rivers that the U.S. exported vast quantities of caviar to Europe.) These overlooked aristocrats have been extracted from the stream by the University of California at Davis, which plans to breed them in vast ponds like those used in the South to grow the plebeian catfish. The Le Carre element enters with Serge Doroshov, 42, who helped develop the advanced Soviet aquacultural, or fish-farming, program; he defected to the U.S. last year and joined the Davis staff. Among other things...
...result, .44 is something of a half-breed, a strange and ill-conceived little book that wanders around somewhere between being a police record and a cheap detective novel. Most annoying--and there are many annoying features of this book--is the authors' practice of assigning fictitious names to all the characters, in a clear attempt to avoid the lawsuits that would otherwise accompany even the slightest exercise of their literary license. That may be understandable, but the problem is that the major characters are so well-known that the pseudonyms become a real distraction, an annoying reminder...
Professor Benjamin Vandegrift, of Washington and Lee, sees a whole new breed of middle-management executives who have graduated from the campus activism of the '60s and are now moving into politics to preserve their dreams. New York's Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan is almost poetic on the subject of the entrepreneurial ethos. "The great corporations of this country were not founded by ordinary people," he says. "They were founded by people with extraordinary energy, intelligence, ambition, aggressiveness. All those factors go into the primordial capitalist urge." M.I.T. Professor Louis Banks takes the next step...
...Triple Crown are long enough to fire larceny in a bettor's soul and break a breeder's heart. Almost 30,000 Thoroughbreds are foaled annually on North American farms, but only about 3% ever win a stakes race, much less one of the Triple Crown races. Breeding Thoroughbreds is far from an exact science. Says Brownell Combs II, the manager of Spendthrift Farms, regularly one of the tops in the sport: "You breed the best mare you can possibly get to the best stallion you can possibly get and then you hope for the best." And Combs...
Short of coming up with cows that breed as fast as battery hens, there is little that the Government can do to ease the fluctuations of the ten-year beef production cycle. One stopgap measure that President Carter is now considering would be to relax import restrictions on foreign beef in order to increase supplies at meat counters. Since there is presently no world surplus of beef anyhow, lifting restrictions would probably bring in no more than 250 million Ibs. of beef on top of the 1.3 billion Ibs. that the nation already imports from Australia, New Zealand, Canada...