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...HISTORY OF HORSE RACING by Roger Longrigg. 320 pages. Stein & Day. $22.50. The author briskly covers the circuit from the chariot contests of ancient Greece to modern-day trotting, flat racing and steeplechase events. Intensive history is interlaced with odd bits of equestrian esoterica, like the tale of the dancing horses of Sybaris who betrayed the Sybarites in battle in 510 B.C. by throwing their riders at the sound of the enemy's flutes. Here one can trace bloodlines, learn how jockeys developed their "monkey-on-a-stick" riding style, or simply be amused by the 30,000 deaths...
...chemistry prize, also worth $98,100, went to Christian Anfinsen, 56, of the National Institutes of Health, and Rockefeller University's Stanford Moore, 59, and William H. Stein, 61, for their work on enzymes. Made up of long, folded chains of amino acids, these proteins are essential intermediaries, or catalysts, in the body's vital chemical reactions. Anfinsen showed how the three-dimensional shape of an enzyme-critical to its role in those reactions-is dictated by the order in which its amino acids occur. Moore and Stein, studying the same enzyme-ribonuclease -ingeniously unraveled its sequence...
...sales as a temporary fluke. It seems to be turning into a chronic problem that if not solved could halt for good the funds' once dazzling growth. As a result, some funds are taking direct action. Last week in a management shake-up at Dreyfus Corp., Chairman Howard Stein returned to his former job of running the day-to-day operations of Dreyfus Fund Inc., the third largest mutual fund...
...LESLIE FIEDLER 263 pages. Stein...
...Stein doubts that such an exceptionally high real growth can be sustained, but he has many reasons for his conviction that 1972 will be a strong year. Other indicators...