August 1, 1971

Sapling Stakes: Chevron Flight wins

July finally ended, which was probably news enough for the New York Mets, who lost 20 of the 29 games they played during the month. But they escaped the siege with flour ishes yesterday by defeating the Chicago Cubs, 5‐2, for the second straight time.

I HAVE never thought that the scene of a wife hearing the car make “a funny noise” was at all comical, and neither did James Thurber, who once, in a story called “A Couple of Ham burgers,” told of a wife who said some thing in the car was making a noise like “a lot of safety pins being jiggled around in a tumbler.” The husband as serted that nothing that goes wrong with cars sounds like that, but little good did it do him, finally, in Thur ber's' grim account of an unrelenting marital squabble. My own wife, whose name is Ce, said that what she heard sounded like peanuts rattling inside waffle iron.

CALI, Colombia, July 31— Frank Shorter, who said he was ready to run, and Pat Matzdorf, who was almost too ill to jump, recorded the first gold medals for the United States at the Sixth Pan‐American Games; tonight.

Justice Dept announces ITT agrees to divest self within 2 yrs of its holdings in Canteen Corp and Fire Protection Div of Grinnell Corp in return for end of Dept antitrust suits over ITT acquisitions of Hartford Fire Ins, Canteen and Grinnell; ITT, within 3 yrs, would have to give up either Hartford Fire Ins or Avis Rent-A-Car, ITT-Levitt & Sons, ITT Life Ins and ITT Hamilton Life Ins; ITT chmn Geneen says ITT will keep Hartford and give up other cos; details