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> Lisa G. Berkins, a nationally known psychologist and expert on eating disorders, was arrested in a West Hartford, Connecticut, convenience store in July after passing out from inhaling the aerosol from three cans of whipped cream.

> Thomas E. Mason was charged with robbing the Fortress Bank in Winona, Minnesota, in June; he was arrested nearby and identified by bank employees, but the main evidence against him was the threatening holdup note, with began, cheerfully, "Hi, I'm Thomas Mason."

> A University of Birmingham (England) professor, working from a third-century Greek text of the New Testament's Book of Revelation, found that the number representing the Antichrist is probably not 666, but 616 (in that 616 referred to the Emperor Caligula). (A Church of Satan official in New York had no comment except to say that his church will use whatever number Christians fear.)

(Articles by Chuck Shepherd, United Press Syndicate)