Cheesecake. In Detroit, meeting to select the Posture Queen of 1955. Michigan chiropractors dutifully pored over dozens of candidates' X rays to find the girl with the best intervertebral fibro-cartilages.

Judgments. In Syracuse. N.Y.. on the same day he received a five-to ten-year prison sentence for taking part in a $12 robbery, Joseph Chappell. 21,_won a $2,100 settlement in an auto-accident lawsuit.

Beyond the Dessert. In Charleston, W.Va., at the gala opening of Woodrum's Tearoom, the proprietors did some rapid table hopping after they discovered that matchbooks placed before each customer bore an advertisement for indigestion tablets.

Sound Barrier. In Chicago, two burglars who broke into an electronics firm were startled when a booming voice said, -'Good evening, gentlemen. We remind you that this place is electronically guarded. We suggest that you turn around and disappear." fled emptyhanded when loudspeakers all over the building began shouting, "Burglars! Burglars! Call the police!"

Look, No Feet! In Milwaukee, Arthur Cole. 30, having failed all standard police sobriety tests, was acquitted of a drunken driving charge after he suddenly upended himself, walked steadily on his hands across the courtroom.

Crash & Carry. In Masury. Ohio, police charged Joseph Garity with leaving the scene of an accident after he locked bumpers with another car in a restaurant parking lot, drove away with the other car in tow.

Leak. In Springfield. Mass.. the Hampden District Medical Society barred reporters from a special meeting at which doctors voted to double membership dues to increase the society's public-relations program.

Light Fantastic. In Juarez, Mexico, Juana Lucio, 78, testified, when her 103-year-old husband sought a divorce, that he came home late at night drunk, insisted on making merry, dancing the schottische with her.

Sequitur. In Mexico City, the Mexican government telegraph company, replying to numerous requests to inaugurate night service, announced: "This is impossible because our offices are closed at night."

Good Intentions. In Madison, Wis., fined for giving three cans of beer to a twelve-year-old girl, Gerald Schott, 24, explained apologetically: "I thought she was 14."

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