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...disease-resistant hybrid that would eat virtually anything, it has been munching its way across the Northeast. As many as 30,000 caterpillars can infest a single tree, and each of them can consume five or ten small leaves a day. They seem especially partial to the majestic oak but also eat fruit trees like apple and cherry, the maple and, alas, the already imperiled elm. If nothing else is available, they will nibble away at spruce, hardy pines and hemlocks, even shrubs-more than 500 species...
DIED. Paul Butler, 89, Chicago industrialist and founder of Butler Aviation, one of the nation's largest general aviation companies; of injuries received when he was struck by a car near his home; in Oak Brook, Ill. Butler, an expert pilot, founded Butler Aviation in 1946 to provide fuel and service for private aircraft in airports across the country. An avid sportsman, he once maintained 3,000 acres in Oak Brook, comprising an airstrip, riding stables, a golf course and 13 polo fields...
...jailhouse legal expert. Early one morning last week, as Ray studied in the prison's law library, he was attacked from behind by three fellow cons, all of them black. The gang beat and stabbed Ray, 53, with a foot-long metal window brace. Doctors in nearby Oak Ridge found 22 wounds in Ray's head, neck and chest, but after an hour of surgery and 77 stitches he was out of danger. At week's end Ray was discharged from Oak Ridge hospital and transferred to Brushy Mountain Prison infirmary. The motive for the bloody assault...
Pissarro was one of the avant-garde's oak-tree uncles: a man of enormous solidity and forthrightness, blunt in speech, loyal to his friends and open to younger artists. He loved to organize, teach, and argue and work with other painters, and the list of artists who owed him some part of their self-knowledge was long...
...leisurely four-day Memorial Day weekend with Mrs. Reagan on their 688-acre ranch in the Santa Ynez Mountains near Santa Barbara, Calif. He and his wife rode horseback for an hour or so each morning. With help' from an old friend, Barney Barnett, he spent time clearing oak branches that had fallen during a late winter snowstorm in March. Apart from working on his West Point speech, he just took it easy. "He was in a super mood the whole time we were up there," said Dennis Leblanc, one of only two personal aides who accompanied the Reagans...