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...Actuality. In fact, this is an outrageously bad book, written by an author with very little of interest to say, even to herself, and very little skill in saying it. It is composed of a swamp of hallucinated recollections, in the center of which resides a distracted spinster named Vera Cartwheel. She dithers madly and endlessly about her childhood, which was spent-in thin reality or thin dream-in a fantastic seaside mansion in New England. There she lived, or never lived at all, with an opium-soaked mother, two butlers, only one of them real, a spooky lawyer named...
...time and effort detaining petty offenders while they wait for a hearing? New York City police now agree that it makes far more sense simply to give the accused a summons ordering him to appear in court later. Evidence is the Manhattan Summons Project, a pioneering experiment by the Vera Foundation, which is already noted for getting pretrial defendants released on their own recognizance without bail (TIME, July 12, 1964). The summons project is a simple interview system run mostly by law students. For example, a young woman garment worker and mother of three was recently arrested for shoplifting...
Ship of Fools. In her mordant 1962 bestseller, Novelist Katherine Anne Porter unsparingly scrutinized what she described as "the ship of this world on its voyage to eternity." Her passengers were pimps, bigots, weaklings and other morally rumpled types, booked from Veracruz to Bremerhaven on the German vessel Vera during the early 1930s. Skirting the allegorical deeps, Producer-Director Stanley Kramer and Scenarist Abby Mann (Judgment at Nuremberg) have turned Ship into just another showboat-a flashy popular melodrama, acted with everyman-for-himself urgency by a troupe of scintillating international stars...
...Vermont, Ma Calloway (Vera Miles) yearns for "a house with real snap-on lights." Pa (Brian Keith) and Son Bucky (Brandon deWilde) seem content with a cabin in the pines, where their pet bear can hibernate under the floor boards. The menfolk only want to raise $1,100 to buy a private lake where the geese can set down en route north or south, as the case may be. But a halfway house for geese is not a simple matter, not by a long shot...
...treasurer of the bank said that that whole episode "seemed just like a normal transaction," and the half dozen customers and 10 other employees were unaware that a holdup was underway. Even the teller at the next window, Vera Wolhfort, did not know what was happening. The treasurer added that the bank considered the money stolen to be "a limited amount...