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Water Shortage. The colony's British rulers, who throughout the crisis have maintained a stiff upper lip, decided to crack down. Said Acting British Colonial Secretary D. R. Holmes: "The time has come to grasp and retain the initiative in this contest." Hong Kong's superbly disciplined police got permission to unlimber their shotguns. The Communist mobs retreated under volleys of pellets, and police collared 245 hard-core rioters. While British troops in full battle dress stood guard, Hong Kong police stormed into the previously inviolate Communist union headquarters and schools, carted off barrels of riot weapons-steel...
...dirty dozen have it completely -- from the moment one of them gives their officer (Lee Marvin) a little lip and gets a fist in the mouth. We're for Marvin too: he's the one who puts the twelve convicts in fighting shape and communicates to them the we-row-together-or-we're-sunk notion. Their mission is blowing up a chateau-load of German generals, but the main problem is getting the convicts to work as a team. They're of course restless under authority. Still, Marvin--no convict, but not a sweet-talking guy--gives the officers...
Whichever view prevails, the time may have passed when Congressmen could give lip service to ethical reform while waiting for public indignation to evaporate. Having already suffered through the humiliations of Dodd and Powell, Congress now faces an investigation of Missouri's Senator Edward Vaughan Long, whose financial connections with Jimmy Hoffa's chief counsel were recently disclosed by LIFE. "We cannot," says Williams, "let those charges go unanswered...
...also a pretty fair description of Eddie's sometime teammate (on the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants) and current chief rival for the affections of Chicagoans: Manager Leo ("The Lip") Durocher of the Chicago Cubs-the hottest team in the National League. Beating the Cincinnati Reds 6-3 last week for their twelfth victory in 13 games, the Cubs climbed to within one-half game of first place, set Chicagoans buzzing about the possibility of an all-Chicago World Series-first in 61 years. But if The Brat and The Lip do clash in the Series...
They did it by shooting from the lip, dauntlessly laying down a crossfire of patter that is often more fizzle than sizzle. Sample exchange from this week's season-ending show...