July 22, 1983

Governor Cuomo and the majority leader of the State Senate, Warren M. Anderson, today resolved a dispute over appointments to the State Commission of Investigation. Mr. Anderson, a Republican from Binghamton, had threatened to block confirmation of all future appointments by Governor Cuomo unless a former State Senator, who is a Republican, was reappointed to the commission. Under the accord, the commission will be expanded from four members to six to give Mr. Anderson a chance to reappoint Bernard C. Smith, the former Senator who is also a former Suffolk County District Attorney. Senate Session Canceled In exchange, Mr. Anderson canceled a Senate session he had called for Monday to attempt to rescind the confirmatons of as many as 29 of Mr. Cuomo's appointees.

The Chrysler Corporation reported today that it earned $310.3 million, or $2.41 a share, in the second quarter, nearly half of it the result of tax credits carried forward from the auto maker's years of huge losses. The quarterly profit, Chrysler's largest ever, compared with net income of $106.9 million, or $1.34 a share, in last year's second quarter. The earnings report was another step in the company's remarkable recovery from near bankruptcy less than three years ago. Last week, Lee A. Iacocca, Chrysler's chairman, announced that the company would repay this year the remaining $800 million of the $1.2 billion in federally guaranteed loans that enabled the company to avert bankruptcy.

THE season of the flea market is upon us, that succession of weekends in the summer when collectors, the merely curious and the compulsive pore through piles of collectibles in search of serendipitous discoveries at outdoor markets in parking lots, at race tracks, on town greens and in sports stadiums. This year, by all accounts, they will be looking for relics of the steamship era of the 1920's, when trans-Atlantic crossings were social and historical events. In other years, it was memorabilia of Shirley Temple, particularly a blue cereal dish bearing her picture; old postcards and theatrical posters, duck decoys, 1940's furniture, glass paperweights and copies of Hummel figures made in Japan. For many, a flea market is a place to indulge in not very serious interests, a reasonable excuse for a country outing. For others, however, such as antiques and collectible dealers, the flea market is a place to do business.

A SUMMER'S night of theater - especially while away on a holiday or as part of a quick escape from the city - is the essence of leisure. It is a fling in the midst of a lark, a vacation within a vacation. It is a walk in the woods before the curtain rises, a cool evening breeze at intermission, a sky full of stars at play's end. To catch these double pleasures, consider the many plays now being offered at theaters surrounding the metropolitan area. In the Berkshire Mountains, there is ''Harvey,'' the classic comedy of man and rabbit. In the woods of Westport, Conn., a young playwright will open her first musical. A musical by Irving Berlin will be presented on the banks of the Connecticut River, and Chekhov will be performed near the spas of Saratoga Springs, N.Y. As always, there are revivals galore. At the Goodspeed Opera House in East Haddam, Conn., where many a Broadway hit began, Irving Berlin's 1949 Broadway show ''Miss Liberty'' will be staged. Fans of Chekhov have at least two options: ''Ivanov'' at the Williamstown Theater in Massachusetts and ''The Seagull'' at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs. Mummenschanz, the maskand-mime troupe, will also revive its Broadway production in Saratoga Springs next week.

The Government reported today that the nation's economy grew at a strong 8.7 percent annual rate in the second quarter. The growth was fueled by an unexpected burst in consumer spending and a slowdown in the rate at which businesses are using up their inventories. The growth in the gross national product, like many less comprehensive reports lately, showed the economy was moving at close to the heady momentum of the early stages of most recoveries from recessions. The 8.7 percent rate, covering the period from April through June, was adjusted for inflation.