Oedipus Rack. In Singapore. Them Kim Kow said in court that she had left her husband, but would return if her mother-in-law would stop sleeping under their bed.

Lost Condiment. In London, forcibly detained in a restaurant for refusing to pay a $4.25 tab, James O'Brien won $14 for unlawful imprisonment after he explained that he withheld payment because no onions were served with his curry.

Yearly Bread. In Los Angeles, after his loaf of whole-wheat bread won first prize in the Los Angeles County Fair, Antique Dealer Streeter Blair admitted that he made the loaf last year, aged it twelve months in the Deep Freeze.

Prisoner's Base. In San Diego, Motorist Walter Harris was booked on suspicion of drunken driving after he made a wrong turn while fleeing from a patrol car, careened up the police station driveway, knocked down a No Parking sign, skidded to a stop 20 ft. from the city jail.

Chemin de Per. In Lisbon, after hushing up for years a 4:29 a.m. train that takes gamesters back to town every dawn from the gambling resort of Estoril, the Sociedade Estoril railroad decided to come clean, put it in the timetable.

Robber Barren. In Rochester, asked why he gave himself up to police after heisting 114 pennies from a beanery cash register, William Manning grumbled: 'Well, where was I going to go on $1.14?"

Object All Sublime. In Ionia, Mich., after he pleaded guilty to bombarding a minister and his congregation with peaches and tomatoes, Roger Link was sentenced to attend the pastor's Sunday services for the next 13 Sundays.

Foreign Service. In Niagara Falls, N.Y., arrested for illegal entry into the U.S. for the fifth time, after he crossed the border atop a boxcar and wandered into a police station looking for a place to sleep, 18-year-old Jacque Paul Norman Gagne told immigration officials his ambition: to go to Washington and get a job as a Treasury Department investigator.

The Old Order Changeth. In Fryburg, Ohio, Pusheta Township trustees posted a notice: "Effective immediately, there will be no parking at the No Parking signs."

Atom Cannon. In Manhattan, although police testified that two patrolmen were knocked to the ground when Howard Simms's pistol accidentally discharged as one of them tried to unhook it from his belt, the court found Simms innocent of carrying a firearm, concluded the cops "must have been leaning pretty far over when they were knocked down," gave the defendant back his 1-in.-long toy gun.

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