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This sketch for a real live novel has all the earmarks of a well-written, readable book, but it adds up to nothing much. Most novelists jump the gun, make at least one false start. Black Cabin indicates that Author Green Peyton (Wertenbaker) may have a stride worth hitting...
...circular track 25 centimeters in diameter a housefly and an ant ran a race. The stride of the ant was 5/10 millimeters in length; three of his strides equaled one of the housefly's. In two minutes the ant made 2,000 strides; the housefly 500. Given: 1) the race was for 300 meters; 2) after eight hours the housefly began to cheat by flying to the point on the race track diametrically opposite to him, in the space of one second every alternate round, from that minute on; 3) at the same instant the ant sprained...
...about which everyone knows. Generally speaking it has raised Soviet production above the pre-Plan level, which level was from 4% to 37% higher than the pre-War level and was far above the pit of stagnation in Russia's famine year. The Plan has marked a tremendous stride toward industrializing Russia and toward proletarianizing Russians, but the Plan has fallen and is falling short of many of its goals...
...indoor athlete season swung into full stride yesterday with the opening of six classes in body-conditioning and one in tumbling and apparatus work in the New Athletic Building...
...example of London's outrageous young wastrels. Seth makes Basil head of the Bureau of Modernization, which before long practically takes over the government of the country. In off hours Basil has fun with Prudence, enthusiastic daughter of the vague British Minister, but as Seth really hits his stride Basil's off hours become few & far between. Seth, remodeling his capital, tears down the Anglican Cathedral, renames the site "Place Marie Stopes." Climax of Azanian modernization is to be a Pageant of Birth Control. The pageant turns into a riot, the riot into a revolution. Seth is killed...