July 16, 1961

Growing international tension cast a pall over the securities markets last week, inducing renewed caution on the part of investors and weakening prices until the late, brisk rally on Friday.

IF the legitimate theatre isn't as sick as the New Haven Railroad it, nevertheless, has as many doctors trying to get it on its feet.

With Leonard P. Sasso's 6-5 overnight favorite, Globemaster, withdrawn because of the sloppy track, Ogden Phipps' Hitting Away scored a nose victory yesterday in Aqueduct's mile-and-a-quarter $83,600 Dwyer Handicap. The High Tide Stable's Baldpate, the outsider in the field of eight at $28.15-to-$1, was second.

PRAGUE -- The traveler outward bound after a stay in Russia finds Prague a giant step toward the ways of the western world. It begins at the airport, which looks more finished, less provincial, more professional than Moscow's.

DETROIT, July 15 -- Larry Osborne, pressed into service as an emergency performer today, belted an eighth-inning home run that lifted the Detroit Tigers to a 2-1 victory over the Minnesota Twins.