Emancipation. In Tokyo, Police Officer Tadao Takase asked for a divorce, charging that his wife, taking advantage of Japanese women's newly conferred equality, 1) tore his underwear, 2) ripped his uniforms before meetings, 3) ran out on him 40 times, 4) regularly chased him off his beat.

Beauty & the Beast. In Tucson, Ariz., two University of Arizona fraternities admitted that they served horse meat at several meals each week, asked that their names be withheld because it would "ruin us with the girls."

The New Navy. In Halifax, the Canadian navy posted bulletins to remind its sailors that they should say "Aye aye, sir," not "O.K., sir," "Right, sir," "Roger, dodger, sir."

Beanball. In Chicago, Milkman William Arneson spotted a thief running away from his delivery truck with a crate of eggs and 13 pounds of butter, knocked him out by hurling a half-gallon bottle of milk, proudly identified himself to police as pitcher for the Bowman Dairy Baseball Team.

Sweet Enough to Eat. In Darmstadt, Germany, Tassilo Horn was sentenced to 27 months in jail after admitting that he bit off the tip of his fiancee's nose--in self-defense, he said.

Touchy Subject. In Douglasville, Ga., as H. L. Parr started to sketch a picture of the devil his minister had asked him to make for a church meeting, a rip-roaring electric storm broke out, lightning struck a cable post, knocked out Parr's switch box, put out his lights and tore up his water pump.

Extraction. In Chicago, Louise Springer confessed that she went for treatment to six different dentists and, while they bent over her with the drill, picked their pockets for a total take of $2,000.

Surefire Cure. In St. Albans, England, Frederick Thompson, shot in the neck by an alert householder whose house he was breaking into, startled police doctors when he suddenly recovered from a severe thyroid gland disorder.

One on the House. In Minneapolis, Hans Johnson, arrested 93 times for drunkenness, was dismissed after his 94th appearance by a judge who decided he was "making progress."

Gracious Living. In Catterick, Yorkshire, England, Mrs. Margaret Rose, 45, suing her army husband's commanding officer for attempted rape, was asked by the defense why she offered the accused a drink after their set-to, and explained: "It's the normal thing in our house to offer people a drink on leaving."

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