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> "Pressure's Off the Mets Now," deadpanned the New York Post. So it was. Casey Stengel's fumbling, stumbling newcomers to National League baseball lost their 82nd game (v. 29 wins), going down, 7-5, before the Los Angeles Dodgers and thereby setting a new record: they eliminated themselves from the National League pennant race earlier in the season than any other ball club in the 87-year history of the major leagues. Even if the Mets won all 51 of their remaining games, they would still finish with an average of less than .500; since at least one N.L. club must therefore finish above .500, the Mets are out mathematically as well as really.

> At Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, Los Angeles Physician Nathan Ostich, 52, roared down the twelve-mile straightaway in his jet-powered Flying Caduceus racing car for an assault on the world's land speed record (394.2 m.p.h.). He was up to 331 m.p.h. at the three-mile mark when the sleek red-and-chrome car suddenly veered off course. Ostich popped the eight-foot parachute brake; the Flying Caduceus skidded wildly for nearly two miles, snapped off a wheel, hopped briefly into the air and shuddered to a halt. Unhurt, Ostich surveyed the wreckage and growled: "Was I safe at first? That was a long slide."

> On the fourth day of the annual yearling auction at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., the horse-trading Fasig-Tipton Co. set a new world's record: a Keswick Stables chestnut filly sired by Swaps, 1955 Kentucky Derby winner, went to Paul Mel-Ion's Rokeby Stable for $83,000--highest price ever paid for a yearling filly at public auction.

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