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...state officials approached the bleak, cinder-block house, a hostile crowd stared at them coldly. Waiting for them in the doorway stood Vera Black, a tiny, short-haired woman of 42 and one of Leonard Black's three wives. In the house behind Vera, her eight children waited, dressed in their Sunday best...
...children according to the law, i.e., teach them that polygamy is wrong in the eyes of the state. Thus the state is trying-without having to resort to lengthy and costly court action-to persuade the Blacks and their like-minded neighbors to give up plural marriage. But Vera Black would not be persuaded. In a steady voice, she read a statement to the officials: "Ours is a nation of equal rights before the law. Why should I be required to sign . . . any oath of any kind in order to keep the children I have honorably borne unless all mothers...
...Died. Vera Buchanan, 53, Democratic Congresswoman from Pennsylvania who was elected in July 1951 after the death of her husband, Congressman Frank Buchanan, and was twice reelected; after long illness; in McKeesport...
...having spent too much time at the bottom of an aquarium. The swimming pool is covered with a green scum; the magnificent halls are damp and echoing; the pupils riot over a dinner of sausage and potatoes. There are four teachers: two male nonentities and two striking women -frail Vera Clouzot and mannish but beautiful Simone Signoret. Headmaster Paul Meurisse is a reptilian thug who is married to Vera, keeps Simone as his mistress, and treats both of the women abominably...
Simone Signoret has had enough. She flees, and Vera fatalistically awaits her end, aided only by stubble-bearded Charles Vanel, an ambiguous private detective with the disconcerting habit of turning up in her bedroom at midnight to report his progress. The terrors mount to the satisfying crescendo of a Gothic nightmare as Vera, haunted by predawn whispers, creakings and rustlings, retreats to her own bathroom, finds the tub filled with water and containing the staring body of her drowned husband. She dies of heart failure, and Director Clouzot brings his masterly thriller to a shocker of a conclusion that...