Space Patrol. In Detroit, suing for divorce, Mrs. Sylvia Skolski charged that her husband Thomas had become "obsessed with the idea that space ships will land on earth. He reads pulp magazines and comic books for hours, excluding me from his company ..."

The Test. In Baton Rouge, asked why he had rowed some 2,000 miles down the Mississippi from Minnesota in an open skiff, Jeweler Matthew M. Bakula, 72, told reporters: "I wanted to show my family I was no sissy."

Deadly Weapon. In Johannesburg, South Africa, police hunted the four men who took $26 from a gas station cash register while holding the attendant at bay with a live lobster.

Expert Witness. In Los Angeles, when a holdup man handcuffed Tailor Manuel Hassel and walked off with three pairs of trousers, three pairs of socks and $60 in cash, Hassel refused to panic, later supplied police with the bandit's weight, coat size, waist measurement, shoe and sock sizes.

Below Par. In Yakima, Wash., Mrs. Ivon Cooper, 32, showed up at the local hospital, said she "hadn't been feeling well" since she fell off her roof three days before, was put to bed when doctors found she had a fractured skull, a broken ankle, two broken fingers.

On-the-Job Training. In Flint, Mich., arrested for forging $558 worth of checks, John A. McLeod, 25, tried to convince police that he was a college student majoring in criminal psychology who wanted "to get the feeling" of a criminal at work.

The Blow. In Saint-Nazaire, France, Madeleine Parageaud got word that she had inherited -L-32,700 ($91,560) from her aunt in Australia, refused to celebrate, said gloomily: "You can't have [both] money and peace. This is really bad luck."

Reduced Charge. In Los Angeles, jailed on suspicion of auto theft, ex-Convict Henry Segura swiped Cellmate Manuel Salazar's clothes and identification cards, paid Salazar's $25 fine for drunkenness and calmly walked out the front door.

Foreign Influence. In London, Seaman Alexander Miller was convicted of drunkenness and fined 5 shillings, despite his contention: "I [was] suffering from a strange Chinese disease."

Time to Retire. In Madison, Wis., Leonard Green, 50, won a divorce after testifying that his wife Bertean had nagged him incessantly, made him decide to leave home when he found her in the kitchen sprinkling ground glass on hamburgers "to feed some animals around here."

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