Back Again. In Spokane, Wash., Alzar Arndt finally had the cast taken off his broken back after three months, went out to celebrate, got a slap on the back, went off to the hospital to have his back fixed again.

Direct Approach. In Samalayuca, Mexico, six ingenious prisoners escaped by pushing down the jail walls.

The Answer. In Alaganik, Alaska, a search party hunting Jimmy La Gasa, who had fired a rifle at a powder magazine just to see what would happen, found one leg.

Off-Color. In Redwood City, Calif., Donald Brown sued Binney & Smith Co., crayon manufacturers, for $35,243, complained that after his young son ate some of the crayons his body turned blue and his blood chocolate brown.

. . . Into the Fire. In Springfield, Mass., police said that hospital attendants treated Joseph Jaciow for a new stomach ache after he had innocently tried to cut out the old one with his dirk.

Original. In West Los Angeles, Patricia Winiman was fined $25 for driving 54 m.p.h. in a 20-mile zone, despite her excuse: "My baby crawled down . . . and pushed the accelerator."

The American Home. In Waukesha, Wis., a judge awarded Mrs. Dolores Garvey a divorce after she testified that her husband let his dog track mud through her kitchen. In Cincinnati, Elmo Skinner's petition for a divorce complained that his wife was in Loglick, Ky., where "she has acquired a hog and 40 chickens. The world food situation being what it is, she prefers to remain ... in preference to returning to ... the potluck which city life offers." In Los Angeles, John Wilson, who said his wife walked out on him two hours after the wedding, finally got around to suing for divorce, 47 years after her walkout.

Invitation. In Haleiwa, T.H., burglars approached the closed rear door of the Crash Inn, did.

File & Forget. In Worcester, Mass., brave Helen Pedone and Julie Carelli optimistically complained to police that their wallets had been stolen at the annual policemen's ball.

Locked Stable. In Monterey, Calif., Deley Brown borrowed a car, wrecked it, borrowed a truck to tow the wrecked car away, wrecked the truck, climbed out of the wreckage and tore up his driver's license.

Unfair. In Detroit, Striker John Moser asked a judge to order his boss to stop trying to hypnotize him while he was trying to picket.

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